Description
Book SynopsisRecognising the distinctive context of the Philippines, with its unique long history, and peculiar population distribution across thousands of islands, this edited collection analyses its decidedly familial culture. Why do Filipino families maintain perhaps the strongest family bonds of any culture? How have shown a unique ability to persevere, even when faced with the direst of circumstances?
Covering a broad range of topics, chapters and commentaries delve into changing gender roles, poverty and family dynamics, mothering in prison, teenage fatherhood, dating and mate selection, rural family norms, the interweave of family and community, media representations on families, new forms of parenthood, remittances and familial support systems, and how overseas employment affects spousal and parent-child relationships.
A highly comprehensive ethnographic analysis, Resilience and Familism demonstrates in a specifically Filipino context how strong familial ties can affect inner strength and outer determination.
Table of ContentsForeword; Veronica L. Gregorio, Clarence M. Batan, and Sampson Lee Blair
Chapter 1. A Demographic Portrait of the Filipino Family: A Glimpse from the Recent Past; Jeofrey B.Abalos
Narratives of parenthood
Chapter 2. The Road to Visibility: IVF and Motherhood Journey of Filipino Influencers; Samuel I. Cabbuag
Chapter 3. Pregnancy, Motherhood and Family: Stories Behind the Bars; Romulo Nieva, Jr.
Chapter 4. Acceptance is key: Towards a framework for understanding serial cohabitation; Veronica L. Gregorio
Chapter 5. Selected Cases of Teenage Fatherhood in the Philippines: An Analysis of Risks and Resilience; Joselito G. Gutierrez, Tisha Isabelle M. De Vergara, and Clarence M. Batan
Care provisions in/from the family
Chapter 6. ICT-Mediated Familial Care in Turbulent Times: Filipinos’ Subjectivities, Virtual Intimacy, and Resilience amid Social Change; Derrace Garfield McCallum
Chapter 7. An Exposition of the Multidimensionality of Tagasalo Personality; Rizason L. Go Tian-Ng and Jofel D. Umandap
Chapter 8. Maintaining Personhood and Identity in Dementia: Families as Partners in Care; Tricia Olea Santos, Hanna K. Ulatowska, and Carla Krishan A. Cuadro
Chapter 9. Sexual Identity Visibility and Compounding Stigma in the Familial Context: Life Histories among Filipino MSMs Living with HIV; Jerome V. Cleofas and Dennis Erasga
Chapter 10. Family Relationship, Mental Well-Being, and Life Satisfaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mediation Study among Filipino Graduate Students; Jerome V. Cleofas and Ryan Michael F. Oducado
Families of OFWs, farmers, and fisherfolks
Chapter 11. Response and Coping Mechanism of OFW Children to Parents' Separation; Sunshine Therese S. Alcantara
Chapter 12. The Family as a Farm Institution: Cases in Japan and the Philippines; Carlo S. Gutierrez
Chapter 13. Parental Livelihood Preference for Children among Municipal Fishing Families in South Negros, Philippines; Enrique G. Oracion
Representations of the Filipino family
Chapter 14. Self, Family, and Democracy: Individualism and Collectivism in the Contemporary Filipino Family Film; Janus Isaac V. Nolasco
Chapter 15. Tunay Na Lalaki/True Manhood in the Philippines: Historical Development, Identity Formations and Family Contexts; A. M. Leal Rodriguez
Chapter 16. The Elderly in the Filipino Family; Belen T. Medina and Maria Cecilia T. Medina
