Orphaned Children Research Paper

For many years, Philippines have been struggling against different phenomena like economic challenges, natural disasters, detrimental diseases, unending poverty, hunger, and senseless abuse. The most affected and limited are the vulnerable children since they have nothing to do with it and just accept the reality life has to offer in their very young ages. It is alarming that it cannot be stopped and prevented. Wherever people go in the Philippines, some children are seen begging on the streets and experiencing hunger. Most of them are either abandoned or neglected, and some had deceased parents. Unfortunately, the population of the orphaned children among Filipinos is rapidly increasing. Thousands of impoverished urban orphaned children are

The psychological state of orphaned children after experiencing predisposed issues in their lives had been highly affected; their future may seem affected and all other aspects of their lives may be detrimental like the emotional, physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects. Studies have found that the psychological well-being in general had been highlighted as the state of having positive outlook in life wherein it focused on happiness; the state of having a negative effect, the things that make the children depressed and feeling low are included; the feeling of satisfaction; and the presence of other people or the significant others greatly influenced (Pilapil,

It is the state where other people accepts and loves them for who and what they are even the orphaned children who came from disadvantaged background. In the contrary, not every child can develop a healthy psychological well-being but rather experience the opposite. Some children will develop the conditions of worth in which orphans may perceived themselves to be like by other person because of empathy and it is not healthy. It may create disequilibrium in their emotional state and conflict in social aspect (Feist & Feist, 2013). Unfortunately, the extreme sense of feeling of devalued and negative view may create the state of defensiveness, the child will be inconsistent to protect their self from hurting again, and in most cases it happens to the orphans who were not adopted and see that others are being adopted. Children become distorted and will exhibit the state of denial, they will no longer present themselves suitably or their social aspect will be affected. The lack of congruency among Filipino orphaned children have an implication to the children; not only the qualitative measure should be observed but as well as the quantitative measure as part of unconditional positive regard development of children. The institution itself can offer help to the orphans to balance their state as it is one of their roles to the children (Pilapil,