This qualitative research, which employed phenomenological approach, investigated the social lives of two (2) teen parents, Mario and Lanie, who were enrolled in the Senior High School program in a public secondary school in the Schools Division of Nueva Vizcaya. It analyzed the social practices and academic behaviors of Mario (Case 1) and Lanie (Case 2). The themed information collected from the subjects themselves, as well as the data gathered from the identified reliable informants, revealed that both cases are financially struggling for their education while striving hard to meet their familial responsibilities and obligations. The two student parents also experience difficulty in managing their time for their academic and family work. In addition, Mario and Lanie are also socially less active because of the demands of care and attention for their child, and life partner, too. As such, the two young, teen parents need scholarships and other humanitarian programs for them to be able to pursue and finish their education while showing up for their family obligations. Moreover, the teen parents, based on the narratives of the informants and the subjects as well, need support groups which are genuinely willing to help them pursue their education and ease the academic challenges they are confronted with. It is therefore imperative for school managers and administrators, together with the teachers and parents, and the school community in general, to strengthen school partnership initiatives, to maintain scholarship, financial, and guidance programs for needy students, and to enforce youth activities such as sports competitions, leadership training, children and adolescent health and wellness programs, and others, to alleviate such social challenges among teenagers, especially young parents.
Bahal et al. (Sat,) studied this question.