THE LIVED

Q.M. CASAL, N.M. DE

GRACIA
EXPERIENCES OF
PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE
TEEN FATHERS IN
OF NABUNTURAN
POBLACION,
NABUNTURAN
CHAPTER 1
PROBLEM AND  Discusses how teen fatherhood is
a problem globally, nationally
ITS and locally.
BACKGROUND
 Contains the purpose why this
study is conducted.

 Provides supporting evidences

about the difficulties of being a
teen father.
  To understand the reasons why
teen fathers decided to choose
early responsibility instead of
studying.
PURPOSE OF
THE STUDY  To regard early fathers.

 To hear their side of the story.

THEORITICAL  Explains Pillitteri’s theory about
teen fatherhood.
LENS

 States how the theory helps in

our study.
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

EARLY
EARLY FATHERHOOD
FATHERHOOD
INVOLVEMENT
INVOLVEMENT

COPING
FACTORS EXPERIEN
MECHANIS
CES M
RESEARCH QUESTIONS

 What are the factors why teens became early

fathers?

 What are the experiences of the teenage

fathers?

 How did they cope up to the situation of being a

teen father?
  Delimited to the teenage fathers.

SCOPES AND
DELIMITATION
 Poblacion, Nabunturan,
Compostela Valley
SIGNIFICANCE  The following may benefit the
study:
OF THE STUDY
1. Teenagers
2. Parents
3. Teachers
4. Future researchers
  Factors
 Experiences
DEFINITION  Coping mechanism
OF TERMS  Bivariate
 Multi variate
 Teen father
CHAPTER 2
  Qualitative Research
RESEARCH
DESIGN  Phenomenology/
Phenomenological analysis
  Poblacion, Nabunturan,
RESEARCH Compostela Valley
LOCALE
  The researchers were assigned a
task to do.
ROLE OF THE
RESEARCHER  Encoder, content maker, and
internet surfer.
  Purposive sampling
RESEARCH
PARTICIPANTS  Teen fathers in Poblacion,
Nabunturan.
 Guide Questionnaires
DATA 
 Consulting
COLLECTION
 Validating
PROCEDURE
 DATA  Interpretative phenomenological
ANALYSIS analysis.
CHAPTER 3
THEMES

 1.1 Environmental Influence

 1.2 Prioritizing their responsibility
 Having a hard time

 2.1 Having a hard time

 2.2 Being responsible as a father
 2.3 Hopeless
THEMES

 3.1 Adjusting
 3.2 Striving to raise their family
 3.3 Embracing their responsibility
CHAPTER 4
  The purpose of this
phenomenological study was to
accumulate the factors why
teens in Poblacion, Nabunturan
became early fathers.
DISCUSSION
 The study aimed not only to
accumulate the factors why they
became teen fathers but also to
have deeper analysis of their
insights about teen fatherhood.
IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE

 Environmental Influence

 Prioritizing the responsibility

 Having a hard time

 Being responsible as a father

 Hopeless
IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE

 Adjusting

 Striving to raise the family

 Embracing their responsibility

IMPLICATION FOR FUTURE
RESEARCHES
 Fathers should join programs such as parenting
skill training, child support enforcements,
counseling and work-oriented programs that
offer and help to support their children.
 Family of the teen father should encourage him
to continue studying to give his family a better
future.
 The parents of the teen father should guide him
in his responsibility as a father.
 Families should support the teen father
financially or emotionally to help him be
successful of his responsibility.
 Teens should limit their intimacy together with
their partners to avoid things getting out of
hand.
 Teen fathers should also take care of their child
aside from work to strengthen the relationship
between the father and the child.
CONCLUDING REMARKS

 Others may have a hard time accepting it and

in the process, neglect their responsibility. But
there are also teen fathers who willingly wants to
get involved with their child. They want to be a
part of their life and be responsible as a father.
 Despite of the hardships of being a father, some
still continued their responsibility and supported
their child. They work hard to support the needs
of the family and study hard to give their family
a brighter future.