Parent. Is the one who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or a mother. In this study, a parent is the mother/father of a student who is not around to support their children.
Academic performance. Refers to how students deal with their studies and how they cope with or accomplish different tasks given to them by their teachers. In this study, academic performance refers to how the students with absentee parents deal with their studies and how they cope different tasks given to them.
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). A person who is to be engaged, is engaged, or has been engaged in an enumerated activity in a state of which he or she is not a legal resident. A Filipino who often work as nurses, therapists, teachers, caregivers, "entertainers" and domestic helpers among others abroad. In this study, an OFW is referred to a parent of a child with academic problems due to not present parents or parents who are away from home to provide their family’s …show more content…
Education is the key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and ultimately succeed fully in life. Education is very important, and no one should be deprived of it. It is not only acquired in schools and teachers, children also learn with parents or other family members. A child learns best with their parents and parents have the responsibility to take care of their children. For children, their primary fear is of abandonment and loss of parental love. There may be a number of reasons that the family is no longer intact, if it ever was, but the child is looking for reassurance that it is not their fault and that they will be cared for. Children may jump to a number of conclusions, most of them wrong and blaming themselves, in an effort to find answers and just cope. In an effort to make sense of the situation, they may become clingy to the caregiver and think "If he left, maybe you will too." (Wright,