SOCIAL

PROBLEMS
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
There are many social problems in
our country which may adversely
affect its progress. The school has an
important obligation to help
minimize such problems if not
entirely eradicate them.
Drug addiction is both a
serious national and
international problem.
Causes of Drug Addiction
1. Membership in a “BARKADA”
2. Overuse
3. Curiosity
4. Frustration
5. Victim of a pusher
6. Removal of inhibition
7. Boredom
8. Ignorance
9. Easy access to drugs
1. The personality of the
drug addict becomes
disorganize.
2. His physical health also
deteriorates.
3. The more he is addicted,
the more he craves for
the drug.
-as the term connotes is the
commission of anti-social acts by
young persons, usually minors.
Although this is not much of a problem
in the rural areas, it is however a real
problem in cities and big towns. It
may be in the form of disobedience,
theft, robbery, holdups, rape,
prostitutions and etc.
1. Congestion
2. Frustration
3. Joining a gang
4. Psychological needs
5. Poverty
6. Idleness
7. Lack of spiritual and
moral values
What are the peace and
order conditions in the
country today?
 CAUSES OF LACK
OF
PEACE AND ORDER
 Some Filipinos have embraced the
communistic ideology. They want to
wrest control of the government by all
means so that they can push through
with their program of government.
Because they cannot wrest control of
the government by peaceful means,
they resort to insurgency. Coup d’etats
also occur.
2. Poverty
Because of extreme
necessity of basic needs
especially food, some
people result to petty thefts,
jewelry snatchings, holdups
especially in jeepneys, buses
and taxis and robbery.
 Some people have this mentality
and they engage in bank holdups and
robberies, kidnaps for ransom, and
carnappings from which they get
away with hundreds of thousands and
millions of pesos. Graft and corruptions
in the government is rampant too.
4. Lack of Spiritual and
Moral Values
People with rich spiritual
and moral values rarely
commits crime against
others. It is the unprincipled
individuals who consider that
what are yours and mine are
also theirs.
 When criminality is rampant it
means that law enforcement is
ineffective. This is because the
wrongdoers get away free and
unpunished. It is sad to note that there
are some high-ranking officers in the law
enforcement agencies who are in
connivance with crime syndicates.
This may be one reason why law
enforcement is weak.
1. Pre-marital relations
– having sexual relations
before legal marriage.
2. Extra-marital relations
- married people having
sexual relations with others
not their spouses.
3. Frigidity and impotence
– the absence of sexual desire
on the part of a woman and
impotence is the failure of
erection of the male organ
4. Prostitution
- A woman is paid immediately,
usually in the form of money, after
having sex with a man.
SEX PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTRY
1. Incest
– sexual intercourse between
father and daughter, mother and
son, or brother and sister.

2. Wife-swapping
- exchanging of wives.
3. Hippie Family
– several men and women living
together intimately and having
sexual relations among themselves.
4. Homosexuality
- sexual attraction to the same sex.
5. Nymphomania
- very extreme sexual desire in
women.
1. Trial marriage
There are minority tribes that practice
trial marriage because of their
dwindling population.
2. Contraceptives
With this inhibition removed, girls
become more free to engage in
premarital sex.
3. Poverty
This may be the principal cause
of prostitution.
4. Congestion
Living in crowded dwellings as
a result of industrialization where
privacy is very much lacking
may throw people of the opposite
sex intimately together, resulting
in aroused sexual desire.
 5. Influence of movie stars
Popular movies stars, actors
and actresses alike are often
reported by the media to have two
or more sex partners, some at the
same time while others one after
the other.
6. Desire for Luxury
A woman who desires to have
a luxurious living may attach
herself to a rich man who can give
her the kind of living she wants.
 7. Working women
Married women who work,
especially in offices where they
have close contacts with their male
officemates, are often tempted to
fall in love wit the latter.
8. Lewd shows
These arouse the sex desires of
both male and female who then
seek outlets to satisfy their aroused
sex desires.
9. Women’s lib
Women want to be in equal
footing with men when it comes to
extra-marital relations.
10. Weakening of close family ties
Because of this, there is now
more permissiveness prevailing in
the family. Children are more easy
going and don’t pay much attention
to the advice of their parents.
 11. Accessibility of hotels and motels
This open encourages people
to engage in illicit love affairs. Illicit
love affairs can easily go to these
places for their sex adventure.
12. A spouse working abroad
When a spouse has to work
abroad, either spouse feels the
loneliness of living without a partner
or being deprived of the satisfaction
of sex relationship.
13. Lack of strong spiritual
and moral values
Spiritual and moral
values are the strongest
defenses against sex
waywardness.
1. Untimely Pregnancy
This is the result of premarital sex
relationship.
2. Broken Home
If the husband and wife
engages extra-marital relations and
the other one discovers this, the
spouses may end up separating
from each other.
3. Venereal Diseases and/ or AIDS
Venereal diseases and AIDS often
afflict people who are engaged in
prostitution. There is also transmission
of diseases in extra-marital relations.
The ordinary venereal diseases is
curable but so far, no drugs has been
found yet to cure AIDS. Children of
affected parents by a venereal
disease re born defective. They may
have deformed faces, limbs, etc. and
may be retarded mentally.
1. Values and beliefs
In agricultural area, children are
considered as assets because they can
help their parents work in the farms,
and so the couples do not practice
family planning. Catholic Church only
approves of the rhythm method or
abstinence as a method of birth control
which is ineffective and difficult to
apply.
 2. Medical consciousness
People are now medically
conscious. Once they feel
something wrong with their bodies,
they go to a hospital or to a doctor.
Hence, many lives are saved from
death and the life span is
prolonged.
3. Ignorance of birth control methods
This is true especially in the rural
areas where people are less educated
and less informed.
 4. Poverty
Some couples know some
techniques but they cannot afford
to sustain the constant buying of
contraceptives. Some resort to
ligation but others are still afraid to
undergo this kind of minor
operation.
1. Poverty
This is the result of underemployment
and unemployment.

2. Retarded national economy

The economic gains realized
each year are gobbled up by the
increase in population.
1. Overpopulation
2. Calamities
3. Unemployment
4. Graft and Corruption

Naturally, the effects of poverty are

deprivation of even the basic necessities of
life, low quality of life, low education, low
morale, feeling of insecurity, malnutrition,
and theft and robberies
1. Casino
2. Jueteng
3. Cock-fighting
4. Card Games
Possible Causes:

1. Recreation
2. Strong belief in “luck”
3. Get-rich-quick mentality
4. Lack of strong spiritual and
moral values
1. Some people become impoverished
because of gambling.
2. They lose fortunes especially if luck is
not on their side.
3. Excessive gambling at night causes
deterioration in the health of an adult.
4. Since gambling has no economic
value, time spent in it is useless.
Possible Causes:
1.Recreation
Some people consider
drinking with friends as a
recreational activity.
2.Social function
To some people, social
function is not complete without
drinking beer or wine.
3. Frustration
Some people drink to
forget problems and worries,
people resort to drinking until
they become drunk.
4. Lack of spiritual and moral
values
Persons without spiritual
and moral values are easily
tempted to get drunk.
Negative Effects

1. Killing
2. Injury to health
Possible Causes:
1. Concentration of Establishments in the city
There is too much concentration of
industrial and commercial establishments as
well as educational institutions in the city.
2.Oversupply of Vehicles
These private and public vehicles
occupy more space in the streets than big
buses do.
3. Narrow Streets
Many streets are
constructed without foresight.
4. Lack of flyovers and double-
decked streets
These streets ease traffic in
the street intersections and can
accommodate more vehicles.
Double-decked streets are
found in some cities in Japan.
Negative Effects:
1.Waste of time
2.Hampered production
3.Accidents and killings
Possible Causes:
1. Lack of Foresight
There is an apparent lack of foresight
on the part of our national leaders who do
not foresee the increasing need of electricity
2. Lack of expertise
The operations of electric-generating
plants seem to lack the expertise to run the
plants resulting in the frequent breakdown of
the plants.
3. Graft and Corruption
There are allegations
reported in the newspapers that
the agency in charge of electric
generation is graft-ridden.
Negative Effects:
1. Reduced production
When daily brownouts occur,
ranging from four to six hours, reduced
production of economic goods cannot
be avoided.
2. Underemployment and Unemployment
Some companies close down or
reduce their production as a result
of brownouts.
3. Demoralization
Many people are
demoralized because of the daily
lack of light in their places of work,
in their offices, and in their homes
during which their house
appliance cannot function.
Possible Causes:

1. Illegal Logging
2. Charcoal Making
3. Kaingin System
1. Flash Floods
Flash floods in deforested areas
occur whenever there are heavy rains,
resulting in the destruction of crops and
loss of lives.
Possible Causes:
1. The emission of toxic carbon dioxide from
moving vehicles especially the smoke
belching trucks.
2. The factories emptying their toxic wastes
into rivers or esteros or into the ocean
causes water pollution.
3. Radiation from a nuclear plant creates
extensive damages.
1. Poisoning of People
The polluted air being inhaled by
people slowly poisons the people.
2. Poisoning of water life
The toxic wastes being emptied into
rivers, esteros, and ocean poison and kill
water.
3. Instant death
When pollution is caused by radiation
from nuclear plant, it causes instant
death.
Possible Causes:
1. Population explosion
2. Mismatch between skills
developed by schools and
skills needed by industry
3. Slow industrialization
1. Poverty
2. Employment abroad
3. Low education and low quality
of life
4. Squatting
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