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HEALTH
Quarter 2 - Module 2:
FAMILY LIFE: RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD, ROLES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS AND SUCCESSFUL FAMILY
LIFE

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MAPEH HEALTH– Grade 8
Quarter 2 - SLeM 2: Family Life
Week 2

HOW TO USE THIS SLeM

Before starting the module, I want you to set aside other tasks that will disturb you while
enjoying the lessons. Read the simple instructions below to successfully enjoy the objectives
of this kit. Have fun!

1. Follow carefully all the contents and instructions indicated on every page of this module.
2. Write on your notebook or any writing pad the concepts about the lessons. Writing
enhances learning, that is important to develop and keep in mind.
3. Write in your notebook the concepts that you learned. Writing enhances learning and
helps you keep in mind what is important
4. Perform all the provided activities in the module.
5. Let your facilitator/ guardian assess your answers using the answer key.
6. Enjoy studying.

Development Team of the SLeM

Writer/s: Stephanie Jane D. Acido

Language Editor: Korina Espadilla
Content Validator: Marjorie M. Sales
Format Editor: Stephanie Jane D. Acido
Reviewer: Bonifacio M. Pedrera

PARTS OF THIS MODULE

● Expectations - These are what you will learn after completing the lessons in the
module.
● Pre-test - This will measure what you already know about the concepts to be
mastered throughout the lesson.
● Looking back to your Lesson - This section will measure what learnings and skills
you gained from the previous lesson.
● Brief Introduction - This section will give you an overview of the lesson.
● Activities - This is a set of activities you will perform.
● Remember - This section summarizes the concepts and applications of the
lessons.
● Check your Understanding - It will check what you have learned from the
lessons.
● Post-test - This will measure how much you have learned from the entire module.
 Lesson 3: Responsible Parenthood, Roles and Responsibilities of
Parents and Successful Family life

At the end of the SLeM, students should be able to:

1. analyze the importance of responsible parenthood (H8FH-IIg-h-37);

2. recognize the factors for a successful family life (H8FH-IIg-h-38);
3. explain the effects of family size on health (H8FH-IIg-h-40);
4. enumerate the important roles and responsibilities of parents in child rearing and care (H8FH-IIg-h-
39); and
5. propose ways on how to plan an ideal family size (H8FH-Iig-h-41).

Copy and answer the pre-assessment in your activity notebook or intermediate paper. Write YES if
you agree with the statement and NO if not.

1. Families have the same number of people.

2. Families can celebrate different holidays.
3. Families live in one house.
4. Families celebrate birthdays in the same way.
5. Families change all the time.
6. Even though family members fight, they still love each other.
7. In all families, mothers and father’s work.
8. Mothers and fathers always live together.
9. Different families have different rules.
10. Families have children.

A family is the smallest unit of society where children learn the first ABC’s of life.
Parents are role models of values to their children. Society recognized the rights of parents to raise their
children in the manner they see fit.
 This is one of the main principles of the Philippine Child and Youth Welfare Code.
The primary responsibility of parents is to provide their children with physical care, economic
security, inculcating discipline, social competence, opportunities for education and self-
development, training for responsible citizenship and adulthood.

In a traditional Filipino family, the father is considered the head and the provider of the family while
the mother takes responsibility for the domestic needs and becomes in charge of the emotional growth as
well as values formation of the children. They both perform different tasks and are treated differently by their
children. Children see their mothers soft and calm, while they regard their fathers a strong and the most
eminent figure in the family. However, in the present the family structure is evolving. Moreover, Filipinos
keep close connection with other relatives. They recognize them from 2nd degree to the last they can identify.
As Filipinos say, “not being able.” to know a relative is like turning their backs from where they come from.
Parenthood is the state of being a parent. Traditionally, it means being a father or mother of
the biological child. When adoption is involved, the parents are the legal father and mother of the child.
Responsible parenthood is the will and ability to respond to the needs and aspirations of the family.

Responsible parenting is defined as the series of decisions couples make to ensure the best
possible life for the family and for the community to which the family belongs. It is the ability of the parent to
raise children in the Filipino way and to satisfy the social, economic and religious responsibilities of a family.
Parenting also includes the inculcation of values and instilling discipline.
Responsible Parenthood includes the process of deciding how to choose our partners, when
to form a family, when to have the first child, child spacing, how many children to have in all, etc.
Parenthood is a great responsibility or task. It is not a role which can be successfully played
on the basis of chance. It is a status where responsible couples arrive after making the decision to have a
family.
Factors to Consider When Thinking of Parenthood

1. Happiness and Stability of the marriage

2. Physical and emotional readiness of both partners for parenthood
3. Financial Stability
Duties and Responsibilities of Parents

1. Provide physical care and love

2. Inculcate discipline
3. Develop social competence
4. Provide education
5. Train children to become good citizens
6. Teach children to be financially responsible
7. Guide children to grow spiritually
Family Size

● Small Family – Parents and at most two (2) children

● Big Family – Parents and Three (3) or more children and other members

Big Family Small Family

• Outgoing personality • Quiet life

• Love fun and laughter • Spend more quality time, attention and love with
• Can afford to raise children their children
• Stiff competition in terms of • Provide better opportunities in terms of education,
attention, time and financial health, or comfort in life for your children –
support financially stable
• Malnutrition can take place
if self-deprivation and
health sacrifice are
exercise

Family Structure

1. Nuclear families have parents and at least a child.

2. Blended families are made when two families combine (for example two single parents marry).
3. Couples can be families without having children.
4. Extended families include members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
5. Adoptive families include one or more children who were born into other families.
6. Single parent families have one parent and at least a child.

Effects of Family Size on Health

1. Nutrition – The state of the body with respect to each nutrient and to the overall state of the body
weight and condition.
2. Morbidity – Exit from a state of physical or psychological well-being, resulting from disease, illness,
injury, or sickness.
3. Risk Behavior – Specific forms of behavior which are proven to be associated with increased
susceptibility to a specific disease or ill-health.
4. Utilization of Health Services- Experience of people as their receipt of health care services of different
type
 Table of Responsibilities

Toward Self Toward Spouse Toward Children Toward Parents

Takes care of one’s: -Provides / Parents Young children:
addresses the needs -cares for children -Helps in household
-Health of the spouse: chores
-Performs domestic
-Career emotional, social,
tasks e.g. cooking, -Studies hard
economic, etc.
-Education cleaning the house, -Cares for Siblings and the
etc.. elderly
-Earns a living
-Sends children to Older children:
school -Takes care of older
-Keeps children in parents
good health

Activity 1: Exploring Possibilities

Reflect on the quotation and answer the questions.

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It
does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps
no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.

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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are
tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away - 1
Corinthians 13:4-8

1. What message can you draw from the quotation?

2. How can you “put love into action” every day within your family

Activity 2: In an intermediate paper, draw or paste a picture of your family. Describe how
you admire your parents and siblings.
 A family is the smallest unit of society where
A family..
Requires a lot of work and children learn the first ABC’s of life.
responsibility. Parents are role models of values to their children.

Spent time with your family Society recognized the rights of parents to raise
build harmonious relationship their children in the manner they see fit. This is one of
among members.
the main principles of the Philippine Child and Youth
Parents should be role model to Welfare Code.
their children.
The primary responsibility of parents is to provide
their children with physical care, economic security,
inculcating discipline, social competence, opportunities
for education and self-development, training for
responsible citizenship and adulthood.

Let us now check how wee you understood our lesson. Answer the following questions.

1. What is responsible parenthood?

2. What are the different family structures?
3. Why is family size planning important?
4. Propose ways on how to plan an ideal family size

I. Multiple choice: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write it in an intermediate paper.
1. Which among the statements given below upholds the responsibility of parents to their
children?
A. Choose their course in college
B. Choose their husband or wife
C. Teach them religion
D. Teach them values in the ABC’s of life
2. Why do people marry?
A. For economic security
B. For love
C. For social status
D. All of the above

3. Why do couples want to have children?

A. Children are considered wealth of parents
B. Religious institutions require it
C. Society expects couples to have offspring
D. Strengthens the bond between husband and wife

4. Which is an ingredient of a happy married life?

A. Commitment
B. Love
C. Sincerity
D. All of the above

5. Which is the wrong reason for having children?

A. Children are gifts from God.
B. Children make married couples happy.
C. The sole purpose of marriage.
D. Parents’ security in the future.

6. Why is having a small family important?

A. Ensures community’s progress
B. Provides for the basic needs of children for quality life
C. Requires lesser economic needs
D. Secures the future of the children

7. Which of the following beverages does a pregnant woman cannot take?

A. Chocolate drinks
B. Fruit juices
C. Milk products
D. Rice wine

8. Which food serving does one recommend for lactating mothers?

A. Big serving of cereals
B. Big serving of green leafy and yellow vegetables
C. Big serving of red meat
D. Processed foods

9. Which do you think is the family structure of extended families?

A. Includes members such as parents, grandparents, and cousins
B. Includes one or more children who were born into other families
C. Includes the combination of two families, like two single parent marriage
D. Includes one parent and at least one child
 10. What is the right age for Filipinos to enter into marriage, as set by the Family Code of the
Philippines?
A. 15
B. 18
C. 21
D. 25

References

Teaching Guide on the 2010 Secondary Education Curriculum (P.E. and Health Education
II) MAPEH IV by Vilma Perez, et.al.,St. Bernadette Publication, Quezon City
Website Sources:
Population and Development , Education Teaching Module 2009
https://www.slideshare.net/iamcarloluna/mapeh-8-health-2nd-quarter-responsible-parenthood
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013%3A4-8&versio