Challenges and Coping Mechanisms of Students with Parental Separation

This paper studied the common challenges of twelve students from a public high school in Batangas and their shared personal coping mechanisms from broken family life situation specifically due to parental separation. The consequences to the students’ social, academic, financial, emotional, psychological and spiritual dimensions were determined. The data of this Narrative Qualitative Research which came from one-on-one in-depth interview and non-verbal responses showed how their experience having a parental separation situation affected their life which led to their personal strategies to survive its struggles. The findings revealed that students have a lot of untold stories relative to the dimensions and they managed to cope with these challenges primarily through spiritual interventions. In conclusion, students with broken family are indeed challenged but good socially, inspired academically, able to manage financially, tough emotionally, winning psychologically, and has hope spiritually. Though students face different challenges in life, making God their inspiration, source of comfort and strength in facing the challenges in the family is the most ideal coping mechanism recommendation.