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The Influence of the family


                                breakdown in

                       adolescents students.                                                                                    Saray Manuela Godoy López
                                                                                                                                Saraymg2328@gamial.com
                                                                                                                                Languages Department,
                                                                                                                                Dulce Corazón de María School
                                                                                                                                Villa de Leyva, Boyacá
               Abstract


               Disruption of families has been an emerging phenomenon in
               the  history  of this social institution but has increasingly
               become something more and more common in recent years,                       basic  emotional  needs  of  each  of  its  members. Therefore,
               for several decades now.  This has also caused a major study of              adolescents can become one of the most vulnerable family
               the issue as what has been defined as the breakdown of the                   members, and  be  forced  to  seek  refuge  in other  habits  or
               main ties that keep a family unit together. As a result of this              forms of distraction with long-term negative effects and
               situation, the normal development of its members has also                    losing total communication or trust in family members. This
               clearly been affected, therefore, this research decided on                   could have serious
               focusing the issue mainly on the adolescent family members.                  consequences in various aspects of the normal development
               In this sense the study also tries to include how the normal                 in stage of adolescence. Therefore, this research has focused

               development  of  adolescents is  affected  by  the family                    on examining this phenomenon in adolescents understood in
               disintegration taking place  in each  of their homes.  In the                ages 12 to 16, students in grades six to eleven from the college
               development of the research, several strategies were put into                Dulce Corazón de Maria.
               place,  such  as self-recognition activities and surveys that
               allowed us to get personally closer to each family situation,                Materials and Methods
               aiming to identify in which areas family disintegration has a
               major impact on the emotional, social, academic behavior or                  In order to carry out this project, a mixed approach was taken
               the development or personality traits of adolescents.                        into account, in which characteristics of both, the qualitative
               Key words: Family, Breakdown, Adolescents, Students                          and the quantitative approach have been gathered together.
                                                                                            This been the case, due to the objectives set out in the
               Resumen                                                                      research, subjective results as well as conclusions will be
                                                                                            shown, that means descriptions without statistical backing.
               La desintegración familiar  es  un  fenómeno  que  ha  venido                Nevertheless statistical data have also been collected.
               surgiendo  en  la historia de  la organización social de las                 Observation was employed as a technique and as tools;  we
               familias durante varias décadas pero ha venido aumentando y                  took the field diary and surveys among other different
               convirtiéndose  en algo más común a través de los años,                      workshops that were carried out with the help of participating
               generando también que sea mayormente estudiado y definido                    students.   Due  to  the  unexpected  crisis  that we  have  been
               como la ruptura de lazos principales que unen un núcleo                      facing this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, all the
               familiar y claramente también como una situación que afecta                  activities and workshops carried out in this investigation were
               el  normal desarrollo  de  sus miembros , por lo tanto, esta                 provided virtually by students between the ages 12 to 16, from
               investigación decidió  centrarse  en  tratar este tema                       grades six to ten of the Dulce Corazón de Maria School n Villa
               principalmente en los miembros adolescentes de las familias,                 de Leyva, Boyacá Colombia. In order to achieve the objectives
               tratando de estudiar también en qué sentido se ve afectado el                set out in the research, we carried out workshop number 1, in
               normal desarrollo  de  un  adolescente  por  la  desintegración              which students were asked to make a self-portrait, identifying
               familiar presente en cada uno de sus hogares. En el desarrollo               by themselves their fears, strengths and weaknesses, with the
               de la investigación se pusieron en práctica varias estrategias               purpose of showing what self-image and type of self-esteem
               como actividades de auto reconocimiento y encuestas que nos                  each participant had.  In workshop number 3, in order to meet
               permitieron acercarnos más personalmente a cada situación                    one of the objectives, namely to identify how the quarantine
               familiar teniendo como finalidad identificar en que ámbitos                  has affected the unity within the families, the students were
               del desarrollo emocional,  social,  académico o rasgos de la                 asked to make a schedule of what they have been doing during
               personalidad  de  los adolescentes repercute  mayormente la                  the day, especially mentioning the spaces they have to share
               desintegración familiar.                                                     with the family. Finally, in workshop number 4, a survey was
               Palabras clave: Familia,  Desintegración,  Adolescentes,                     carried out with different types of questions,  mainly to
               Estudiantes                                                                  identify in which aspects of their lives the students think, they
                                                                                            would have liked to have more support from their families
               Introduction                                                                 and  in which aspects are the family  members  of these
                                                                                            students most involved.
               The  family  is a necessary  social organization that has been
               evolving little by little along with society, becoming a
               reflection of it. Therefore, family disintegration is defined as
               the partial, temporary or total absence of one of the parents.
               This concept also applies to different situations within the
               family that imply or cause side effects on all family members,
               but mainly on the  normal development of childhood and
               adolescence.

               A dysfunctional family becomes incapable of satisfying the







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