HW1: Background of the Survey

This research study entitled 'Understanding Family Issues: Diversity Among Filipino Children and Its Effects' consists of three chapters and I had recently accomplished the first one during the first half of this term. The first chapter which is the introduction includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, scope and delimitation, the materials and methods that I'm going to use and the definitions of some important terms that I will be using throughout the conduct of this research study.

To begin the chapter two,  I formulated the following survey questions which I think useful in determining between the two groups of children (children from the traditional two-parent families and children from non-traditional families like divorced families, single-parent families, and gay or lesbian families) who are more likely to experience academic and social adjustment problems and who are better off across measures of well-being particularly in school.

I have been researching for more than two months but there are still things that I don't know yet. I don't know the percentage of college students from a selected school who are living in two-parent families, single parent families, divorced families, and gay and lesbian families and how well each of them performs in school. In order to figure it out, I decided to conduct a survey and ask them few questions like whether their parents are together, whether do they live with their mothers only, fathers only, both or others and what are their grades in school.

This survey is intended for college students. The first part of the survey will require the respondents to answer few general demographic questions like their age, gender and current year level. The above questions are helpful in determining what type of family that each of the students has and how well each of them perform in school.

I came up with an assumption that Filipino children living in non-traditional families, such as those children raised in lone-parent families, divorced families, gay or lesbian families and etc., are worse off across a range of measures of well-being than their classmates with stable two-parent families (Traditional families). However, the scale of the differences in wellbeing between the two groups of children is not large and most children are not adversely affected. The result of this survey will either support or contrast with my above mentioned assumption.