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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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