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Lesson 2: Different Kinds of Children under the Family Code

Parental Authority
Regulation of Child and Youth Welfare Service

This lesson talks about the different kinds of children under family code, parental authority of
the parents which is the natural rights and duty over the person and property of their children,
emancipation and age of majority and regulation of child and youth welfare services.

At the end of the lesson, the student should be able to

✓ define Parental Authority;
✓ recognize the Public and Private Child and Youth Welfare Agencies;
✓ explain and elaborate the different kinds of children under the Family Code; and
✓ paste a family picture and elaborate what makes their family unique among others.

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Task 1. MY SUPERHERO
Direction: Name the super hero of your family and write down his contribution why did you
select him as a superhero. Write it in the minimum of 50 and maximum of 100 words.

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Task 2. Direction: Look for the Public and Private Child and Youth Welfare Agencies in the
word search puzzle. Encircle the words and use black ball pen. Strictly no erasures.

Child-caring Maternity Receiving

Detention Rehabilitation Nursery
Shelter- care Child- placing

Y S C R T Y K D F G S S G H
U H H H M A T E R N I T Y Y
T E I D I F N U R S E R Y Y
U T L C A L F J D R Y T O L
G E D O Q V D T O F T T I H
B R P A D J P C U R O G L G
K C L Q W R Y M A C T E K F
K S A O O G H G R R P Y L F
M F C R U G G R R R I G H G
N F I D E T E T I O N N T G
G G N H T Y G R T T Y E E T
S G G H R E C E I V I N G G
R E H A B I L I T A T I O N

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ANALYSIS
Task 3. Direction: Explain and elaborate the term provided below in your own words.
Further reading and research are advised for scholarly answer.

Legitimate Children
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TASK 4. FAMILY QUOTE

Direction: Below is a quote for family. In your own words, explain your thoughts as to what
have you understood in the FAMILY QUOTE given. Write your explanations in the maximum
of 50 words.

CRITERIA
Relevance (10)
Content (10) Family is like a
Coherence of picture, treasure it
Ideas (5) and hold onto forever
Structure (5)
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ABSTRACTION
Different Kind of Children under the Family Code
1. Legitimate Children – children conceived or born during the marriage of the parents are
legitimate (Please search the rights of Legitimate Children and read)
2. Illegitimate Children – only children conceived and born outside a valid marriage are
illegitimate, unless otherwise provided by family code (Art. 165)
3. Legitimated Children - only children conceived and born outside of wedlock of parents who,
at the time conception of the former, were not disqualified by any impediment to marry each
other may be legitimated.
4. Adopted Children – adoption may be defined as the juridical act which creates between two
persons a relationship similar to the which results for legitimate paternity and filiation
Parental Authority
Pursuant to the natural right and duty of parents over the person and property of their emancipated
children, parental authority and responsibility shall include the caring for and rearing them for civic
consciousness and efficiency and the development of their moral, mental and physical character
and well-being.

Regulation of Child and Youth Welfare Services

Public and private child and youth welfare agencies providing encouragement, care, and protection
to any category of children and youth whether mentally gifted, dependent, abandoned, neglected,
abused, handicapped, disturbed, or youthful offenders, classified and defined as follows, shall be
coordinated by the department of social welfare.
1. CHILD-CARING INSTITUTION
2. DETENTION HOME
3. SHELTER-CARE INSTITUTION
4. RECEIVING HOMES
5. NURSERY
6. MATERNITY HOME
7. REHABILITATION CENTER
8. RECEPTION AND STUDY CENTER
9. CHILD PLACING

Special Categories Child

1. Dependent Child – one who is without a parent, guardian or custodian for good cause desires
to be relieved of his care and custody; and is dependent upon the public for support
2. Abandoned Child – a child who has no proper parental care or guardianship, or whose
parents or guardians have deserted him for a period of at least six continuous months.
3. Neglected Child – a child neglected if his/her basic needs have been deliberately unattended
or inadequately attended. Neglect may occur in two ways.
A. Physical neglect – there is physical neglect when the child malnourished, ill clad and
without proper shelter
B. Emotional neglect – it exists when children are maltreated, rape or seduced, when
child are exploited, overworked or made to work under conditions not conductive to
good health.

Note: further readings and research for these topics are advisable for scholarly answer those
activities given and information taken.

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APPLICATION

Task 5. MY UNIQUE FAMILY

Direction: In the box provided below draw or paste a FAMILY PICTURE and elaborate what
makes your family unique among others. Write your answer in a minimum of 100 and
maximum of 150 words.

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Reflective Journal:
Direction: Direction: Below is a reflection figure that looks like a human figure. Determine what
you have learned (the knowledge that serves as your foundation to stand and
keep); the things you have realized and appreciated (attitude towards learning) and
the things that you discovered (skills that you will cherish in life). Fill in each part of
the reflection figure.

Things I have
learned
(knowledge)

Things I have realized and

appreciated
(attitudes)

Things I have
discovered
(skills)

You’re doing well in this module; you have already finished the first lesson. Keep it up! You can now
proceed to the next lesson.

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POST-ASSESMENT
Direction: Modified True or False. Write T if the statement is true and if the statement is false
provide the word that makes the statement true. Read each item carefully. Be sure to
underline a word to be replaced if false.

_________1. Detention Home is a twenty-four-hour child caring institution providing short term
resident care for youthful offenders who are waiting court disposition.
________2. Rehabilitation center is an institution rehabilitates youthful offender.
________3. Abandon Child is one who without a parent, guardian or custodian and dependent upon
public for support.
________4. Dependent Child is a child has no proper parental care or guardianship, or his parents
or guardians. have deserted him for a period of at least six continuous months.
________5. A child is neglected if his/her basic needs have been deliberately unattended or
inadequately attended.
________6. Nursery is a child caring institution that provides care for six or more children below six
years of age.
________7. Maternity Home is a family-type home which provides temporary shelter from ten to
twenty days for children who shall during this period be under observation and study for eventual
placement by the department of the social welfare.
________8. Receiving Home is an institution of residence whose primary function is to give shelter
and care to pregnant women and their infants before, during and after delivery.
________9. Reception and Study Center is an institution that receives for study, diagnosis, and
temporary treatment, children who have behavioral problems.
________10. Child Placing Agency is an institution or person assuming the care, custody, protection
and maintenance of children.

CLOSURE
Congratulations! You finished the module 3 for this course pack. You have understood the concept
and importance of studying about family in connection of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice System.
Always keep in mind. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. GOD BLESS!

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Summary:

• The family, being the foundation of the nation, is a basic social institution which public policy
cherishes and protects. Consequently, family relations are governed by law and no custom,
practice or agreement destructive of the family shall be recognized or given effect.
• Family relations include those:
(1) Between husband and wife;
(2) Between parents and children;
(3) Among brothers and sisters, whether of the full or half-blood.
• The family home, constituted jointly by the husband and the wife or by an unmarried head of
a family, is the dwelling house where they and their family reside, and the land on which it is
situated.
• The family home is deemed constituted on a house and lot from the time it is occupied as a
family residence. From the time of its constitution and so long as any of its beneficiaries
actually resides therein, the family home continues to be such and is exempt from execution,
forced sale or attachment except as hereinafter provided and to the extent of the value
allowed by law
• The family home must be part of the properties of the absolute community or the conjugal
partnership, or of the exclusive properties of either spouse with the latter’s consent. It may
also be constituted by an unmarried head of a family on his or her own property.
• The actual value of the family home shall not exceed, at the time of its constitution, the
amount of the three hundred thousand pesos in urban areas, and two hundred thousand
pesos in rural areas, or such amounts as may hereafter be fixed by law.
• Illegitimate children may establish their illegitimate filiation in the same way and on the same
evidence as legitimate children.
• Legitimate Only children conceived and born outside of wedlock of parents who, at the time
of the conception of the former, were not disqualified by any impediment to marry each other
may be legitimated.
• Legitimated Only children conceived and born outside of wedlock of parents who, at the time
of the conception of the former, were not disqualified by any impediment to marry each other
may be legitimated.
• A person of age and in possession of full civil capacity and legal rights may adopt, provided
he is in a position to support and care for his children, legitimate or illegitimate, in keeping
with the means of the family.

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