Theory 3M: Responsible Parenthood

Responsible Parenthood

The shared responsibility of the husband and the wife to determine and achieve the desired number, spacing, and timing of their children according to their own family life aspirations, taking into account psychological preparedness, health status, socio-cultural, and economic concerns.

Responsible Parenthood

The will and ability of parents to respond to the needs and aspirations of the family and children.

Responsible Parenthood

It is the ability of a parent to detect the need, happiness and desire of the children and helping them to become responsible and reasonable children.

Marriage

The state of being united to a person as spouse in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law.

Family

A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption living together. Two or more people who live in the same household, share a common emotional bond, and perform certain interrelated social tasks.

Obligation

Duty or commitment.

Adoption

Fact of being adopted.

Legitimate

Conforming to the law or rules.

Legal Separation

Allows each partner to have time away from each other while settling their marriage issues.

Annulment

Is issued to a couple by the court in situations where the marriage was invalid because certain legal conditions were not met.

Divorce

Differs from annulment because it does meet the grounds for marriage. Annulments started out invalid, but these were valid marriages to begin with.

Abortion

Deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Conjugal

Relating to the married state, or to married persons and their relation.

Conjugal Rights

Whatever those people have acquired from the start of their marriage, for instance. If they will go in separate ways, it will be divided equally.

Contract

Formal and legally binding agreement written or spoken agreement.

Family Planning

Allows individuals achieve desired birth spacing and family size.

Desired Birth Spacing

Would help the mother to recuperate and recover its health from the succession of pregnancies. It would also lessen the stressors of the family, and would able to provide the adequate resources and attention to the children.

Contraception

"Birth Control", designed to prevent pregnancy.

Formal Requisites for Marriage

(1) Authority of the solemnizing officer;

(2) A valid marriage license.

(3) A marriage ceremony which takes place with the appearance of the contracting parties before the solemnizing officer and their personal declaration that they take each other as husband and wife in the presence of not less than two witnesses of legal age.

Informal Requisites for Marriage

▪ Legal capacity of the contracting parties who must be a male and a female.

▪ Consent is freely given in the presence of the solemnizing officer.

Solemnizing Officer

▪ Incumbent member of the judiciary with the courts jurisdiction (mayor).

▪ Solemnizing officer of church or religious sect. (priest, imam, rabbi).

▪ Ship captain or airplane chief (only in cases in articulo mortis).

▪ Any military commander of the unit.

▪ (5) Any consul-general, consul or vice consul.

Instances when the law exempts couple from securing a marriage license

1. Muslims or Members of Ethnic Cultural Communities

2. Different countries do not share records or information.

3. Couples living together exclusively for five (5) years.

Family of Orientation

The family one is born into.

Family of Procreation

The family one establishes.

Essential Functions of a Family

1. Stable satisfaction of sexual needs.

2. Procreation and rearing of children.

3. Provision of Home

4. Socialization

5. Economic Functions

6. Educational Functions

7. Religious Functions

8. Health Related Functions

Family Relationship (in Anthropology)

The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings. Relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption.

Family Relation

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together.

Paternity

Would mean a state of being a father, civil status between a father to the children begotten by him. It is fatherhood, family headship.

Maternity

State of being a mother, relationship between a mother to the children begotten by her.

Stepmother

Is a woman who is a wife or partner of one's father after the divorce or a separation of one's parent.

Stepparent

Those parent who is married to the father or mother of the child but who is not that child's father or mother, not the biological parent of the child.

Stepfather

Is a man who is a husband or partner of one's wife after the divorce or a separation of one's parent.

Authoritative Parent

Nurturing, Affectionate, Non-punitive, Discipline through guidance, open communication.

Authoritarian Parent

Strict, inflexible, High expectations, no secret with parent, high supervision, obedience.

Permissive Parent

Nurturing, Affectionate, Few or inconsistent boundaries, takes the role of a friend rather than parent.

Uninvolved Parent

Emotionally detached, self-absorbed, inconsistent or no boundaries, slight interaction.

Basic Traditional Roles of Being a Parent

→ The Nurturer - Educate their children.

→ The Disciplinarian

→ Parents manage the home, different types of chores.

→ Parents as a financially supportive to the family.

✓ Power Role

✓ Supportive Role

✓ Companionship Role

✓ Status Role

Family Functions and Roles

1. Wage Earner

2. Financial Manager

3. Problem Solver

4. Decision Maker

5. The Nurturer

6. Health Manager

7. Environmentalist

8. Culture Bearer

9. Gatekeeper

E.O 209, SERIES 1987

- Family code of the Phiippines.

- Signed July 6, 1987 by former Pres. Corazon C. Aquino.

- Marriage, Legal Separation, Rights and Obligations between husband and wife, property relations between husband and wife.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8533

An act amending Title I, chapter 3, Article 39 of Executive Order no. 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the Philippines, nullifying the prescriptive period for action or defenses grounded on psychological incapacity.

Article 34

No license shall be necessary for the marriage of a man and a woman who have lived together as husband and wife for at least five (5) years and without any legal impediment to marry each other.

R.A. 679, The Woman and Child Labor Law #148

Was amended by the passage of P.D. #442, otherwise known as the Labor Code. The new law raised the minimum age of employment from 14 to 15 years old, and has maintained the previous minimum age for hazardous undertakings at 18 years old.

Republic Act 2714

An act to establish in the Department of Labor, a bureau to be known as Women and Minors Bureau.

R.A. 10354

- The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012

- The state shall protect and promote the right to health of women especially mothers in particular and of the people in general and instill health consciousness among them.

R.A. 7610

Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.

R.A. 7658

An act amending in section 12, R.A. 7610 (on child employment).

Family Planning Services

▪ Contraceptive Services

▪ Pregnancy Testing and Counseling

▪ Pregnancy Achieving Services

▪ Basic Infertility Services

▪ STD/STI

▪ Reproductive Health Services

▪ Breast and Pelvic Examination

▪ Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

▪ STI and HIV Preventive Education, Counseling, Testing, and Referral.

Abstinence (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 100%

Failure Rate: 85%

Advantage: Acceptable to all religious groups. No cost.

Disadvantage: Requires high motivation.

Lactation Amenorrhea (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 1%-5% (under 6 mons.)

Failure Rate: 95% (after 6 mons.)

Advantage: Effective while infant is totally breastfed; approved by all religious and cultures.

Disadvantage: Temporary measure. Not reliable if infant takes supplemental feedings.

Calendar (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 1%-9%

Failure Rate: 25%

Advantage: No cost.

Disadvantage: Requires motivation, cooperation.

Cycle Beads (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 5%

Failure Rate: 12-13%

Advantage: Visual aid can improve compliance; available as iphone app.

Disadvantage: Initial cost. May need to mark on a calendar they have moved a bead rather than rely on memory.

Withdrawal (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 4%

Failure Rate: 22%

Advantage: A male-controlled method.

Disadvantage: Sperm may be present in pre-ejaculatory fluid.

Basal Body Temperature (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 3%

Failure Rate: 25%

Advantage: Cost of thermometer.

Disadvantage: Requires motivation and cooperation by male partner.

Ovulation Method (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 3%

Failure Rate: 25%

Advantage: No cost.

Disadvantage: Requires motivation and cooperation by male partner.

Symptothermal Method (Natural Method)

Success Rate: 0.4%

Failure Rate: 13%-14%

Advantage: No cost.

Disadvantage: Requires motivation and cooperation by male partner.

Spermicide (Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 18%

Failure Rate: 28%

Advantage: Easy to use. Sold over the counter.

Disadvantage: May leave an annoying vaginal discharge.

Male Condom (Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 2%

Failure Rate: 18%

Advantage: Protects against STIs; Male responsibility; No prescription necessary.

Disadvantage: Requires interruption of sexual activity.

Female Condom (Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 5%

Failure Rate: 21%

Advantage: Protection against STI.

Disadvantage: Insertion may be difficult.

Sponge (Parous Woman; Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 20%

Failure Rate: 24%

Advantage: Easy to insert; no prescription.

Disadvantage: Necessary to take measures to avoid danger of TSS.

Sponge (Nulliparous Woman; Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 9%

Failure Rate: 12%

Advantage: Easy to insert; no prescription.

Disadvantage: May cause leakage; necessary to take measures to avoid TSS.

Diaphragm (Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 6%

Failure Rate: 12%

Advantage: Easy to insert.

Disadvantage: Prescript is needed; measures to avoid TSS.

Cervical Cup (Parous; Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 23%

Failure Rate: 3%

Advantage: Can leave in place for several days if desired.

Disadvantage: May be difficult to insert; can irritate the cervix; measures to avoid TSS.

Cervical Cup (Nulliparous; Barrier Method)

Success Rate: 9%

Failure Rate: 18%

Advantage: Can leave in place for several days if desired.

Disadvantage: May be difficult to insert; can irritate the cervix; measures to avoid TSS.

Transdermal Patch (Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.3%

Failure Rate: 9%

Advantage: Easy to apply.

Disadvantage: Irritation to local site.

Vaginal Ring (Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.3%

Failure Rate: 9%

Advantage: Easy to insert.

Disadvantage: May need reminder to insert.

Combination Oral Contraceptives (Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.3%

Failure Rate: 9%

Advantage: Coitus independent.

Disadvantage: Continual cost; poss. Side effect of thrombophlebitis.

Progestin-Only Pill (Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.5%

Failure Rate: 5%-8%

Advantage: Coitus independent; no side effects.

Disadvantage: Continual cos.

Injectable Progesterone (DMPA; Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.2%

Failure Rate: 6%

Advantage: Coitus independent; dependable for 12 weeks.

Disadvantage: Continual cost; continual injection.

Intradermal Implant (Nexplanon; Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.05%

Failure Rate: 0.05%

Advantage: Coitus independent; dependable for 5 years.

Disadvantage: Initial cost; appearance on arm.

IUD (Copper T; Hormonal Method)

Success Rate: 0.6%

Failure Rate: 0.8%

Advantage: No memory or motivation needed.

Disadvantage: Cramping, bleeding; expulsion possible.

Female Sterilization (Surgical Method)

Success Rate: 0.5%

Failure Rate: 0.5%

Advantage: Permanent and highly reliable.

Disadvantage: Initial cost; irreversible.

Male Sterilization (Surgical Method)

Success Rate: 0.1%

Failure Rate: 0.15%

Advantage: Permanent and highly reliable.

Disadvantage: Initial cost; irreversible.

Oral Contraceptives

This is a series of pills that a woman takes once each day for a month. At the end of the month, she starts a new package of pills.

Depo-Provera

Method of birth control given in the form of a shot. The shot gives protection up to 12 weeks. It does not contain estrogen so there are no side effects from that hormone.

Diaphragm / Cervical Cup

A soft rubber barrier in a woman's vagina, used with a contraceptive cream or jelly. It is put into a woman's vagina before intercourse.

Family Health Indices

1. Access to health services.

2. Clinical preventive services.

3. Environmental quality.

4. Maternal, infant and child care.

5. Mental Health

6. Nutrition, physical activity.

7. Oral Health

8. Reproductive and Sexual Health