Parenting Thesis

Chapter 1

PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the introduction, background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, conceptual framework, scope and delimitation of the study and the definition of terms.

Introduction

Parents experience different kinds of struggles in life. These struggles come in different aspects like child rearing, household management and even financial management. In these aspects, child rearing may be the hardest struggle a parent may experience. Parenting is a process in which a person guides and develops a child from infancy to adulthood into a capable person in the future. The type of person a child may become depends on the type of parenting style that is used by a parent. Child

Responsibilities regarding child rearing which includes education, family relationship, financial management and household needs are all left out to their wives. Along the sacrifices made by the seafarers are the struggles of their wives. The wives of seafarers are the key to living a happy and harmonious life and for keeping the family relationship intact. Aside from the struggles that the wives of seafarers experience they have hopes for their families that they want to achieve. These hopes include the following aspects: for the future of their children, their financial stability and their relationship with their family relatives.

The researchers were inspired to conduct this study to explore the struggles that the wives of the seafarers experience in their daily lives and their hopes that they hold onto for their family. This study was conducted by the researchers with hopes to help the wives of the seafarers to express their struggles in order for them to realize other possible actions to take to handle their struggles as well as the hopes that they have.

Background of the

AIMS is one of the leading maritime institutions that was accredited by Marina, which provides excellent and proficient students that will help the maritime industry to elevate their reputation in the working field. The institution offers good quality of education and participates to seminars that will help their students gain knowledge and enhance their capabilities as future mariners. Moreover, one of their core values is mastery which they convey by having their own training center known as the Philippine Seafarers Training Center (PSTC), a TESDA accredited training center that offers courses in Manila.

This topic explained the struggles being handled by the selected wives of seafarers independently. The hopes they hold onto every time their husbands are miles away from themwere also explained. Also, it will benefit the future seafarers to have a deeper understanding with their wives’ situations. This studywill enable to open the minds of the seafarers that they are not the only ones floundering. The study will give knowledge, raise awareness on their spouse 's side, and impart that not only the seafarers but also their spouses have different