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HEALTH
Quarter 2 – Module 2b:
Responsible Parenthood
HEALTH – Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 2 – Module 2b: Responsible Parenthood
First Edition, 2020

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Development Team of the Module

Writer: Dan Jael T. Miguel
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Illustrator: Dan Jael T. Miguel
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HEALTH
Second Quarter – Module 2b:
Responsible Parenthood
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the HEALTH 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Responsible Parenthood!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher
or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12
Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
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For the learner:

Welcome to the HEALTH 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Responsible Parenthood!

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 One of the major reasons why people marry is to have their own family.
Basically, establishing the relationship as husband and wife and exercising
responsible parenthood are attached responsibilities in marriage. Having a new baby
can be an exciting major responsibility. Skin-to-skin contact is usually referred to
as the practice where a baby is dried and laid directly on the mother's bare chest
immediately after giving birth. Offering skin-to-skin after birth will provide the baby an
assurance of trust, love, and care.

In a traditional Filipino family, the father is considered the head and the
provider of the family while the mother takes responsibility of the domestic needs and
is in charge of the emotional growth as well as values formation of the children. Their
roles differ accordingly as they bring up their children into the kind of person they want
them to be. However, at present, the family structure is evolving.

The influences from the government through its varied programs such as
family planning by POPCOM (population-commission) and responsible parenthood
through the barangay health workers (BHW) would somehow help redirect the mind-
set of the couple and the entire family as well. It helps in educating the desired number,
timing and spacing of their children, and contributes in improving the maternal,
neonatal and child health, and nutrition.

This module helps you learn the essentials of breastfeeding and immunization,
the role and responsibilities of parents in obtaining a happy and fulfilled family, how the
government influences the family as an institution, and the possible effects of human
overpopulation.

So, let’s begin!

LEARNING COMPETENCY:
➢ Discusses the essential newborn protocol (Unang Yakap) and advantages of
breastfeeding for both mother and child (H8FH-IIe-f-34, H8FH-IIe-f-35)
➢ Recognizes the importance of immunization in protecting children’s health (H8FH-
IIe-f-36)
➢ Analyzes the importance of responsible parenthood (H8FH-IIg-h-37)
➢ Explains the effects of rapid population growth and family size on the health of the
nation (H8FH-IIg-h-38, H8FH-IIg-h-40)
➢ Examines the important roles and responsibilities of parents in child rearing and
care (H8FH-I Ig-h-39)
➢ Enumerates modern family planning methods (natural and artificial) (H8FH-Iig-h-
41)

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 At the end of the module, you should be able to:

• Discuss the advantages of breastfeeding, the importance of immunization

and responsible parenthood
• Examine the important roles and responsibilities of parents in child rearing
and care toward a happy and fulfilled family
• Internalize the effects of rapid population growth and family size on the health
of the nation toward responsible citizenship.

What I Know

PRE ASSESSMENT

Answer the following in your Health notebook.

A. In your notebook, write down the 5 needs of a baby.

B. Read the statements below. Draw a happy face if you agree with
the statement and draw a sad face if not. Explain the reason for
your answer after you draw the faces.

______1. Mom and Dad provide my basic needs.

______2. Security is the priority of my parents.
______3. Parents give love and care to their children.
______4. We live under the bridge because our parents are jobless.
______5. I get what I want from my parents.

What’s In

Consider the following questions and answer it in 2-3 sentences in your Health
notebook.
1. What can you say about breastfeeding?
2. How does breastfeeding benefit the baby?
3. Which is more important, breastfeeding or bottle feeding? Why?

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 What’s New

Read the statements below and discuss the truth or falsity of each. Justify
your answer and write it in your Health notebook.

1. Families must live together in one house with the grandparents.

2. The father is the breadwinner in the family.
3. A mother or a father can be changed sometimes.
4. The father is always the head of the family and the final decision must be from him
followed by the mother’s, then the eldest to the youngest.
5. Children do not have the right to be heard.

What is It

THE NEWBORN PROTOCOL

“The Unang Yakap or
Essential Intrapartum Newborn
Care was really conceptualized
in order to have early initiation of
breastfeeding. So how early is
early? As early as delivery. The
newborn is placed strategically
on the mother’s breast so he will
be able to feed immediately
when he is hungry. What’s good
about Unang Yakap is that it
respects the readiness of the
baby to breastfeed as
manifested by feeding cues,”
explained Dr. Tetchie.
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“Unang Yakap is a routine for low-risk births but I believe that babies of high
risk pregnancies will actually benefit all the more from it. It should be a routine for all
births unless there are circumstances that prevent the full implementation of the four
core steps like a non-breathing baby even after immediate and thorough drying,” said
Dr. Tetchie.

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 The most important outcome of Unang Yakap is the
promotion of breastfeeding. Since the baby is placed closely to
the mother’s breast he becomes familiar with the breast as the
source of food.

ON BREASTFEEDING
Breastfeeding--It is the traditional and ideal form of infant feeding, meeting an
infant’s nutritional needs for his first four to six months of life. It is essential in childcare.
Mother’s milk is economical and nutritious and it promotes emotional bonding between
the mother and the child. It provides a host of protective factors both cellular and
hormonal. Breast milk contains antibodies that help the immune system of the infant
become stronger. It is non-allergenic and easily digested. Babies are prone to health
issues and their immune system is at its weakest. Therefore, breastmilk is helpful and
lowers the risk of intestinal and general infections.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7600

The Rooming-In and Breastfeeding Act of 1992
The State adopts rooming-in as a national policy to encourage, protect, and
support the practice of breastfeeding.

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IMMUNIZATION
Immunization--is the process whereby a
person is made immune or resistant to
an infectious disease, typically by the
administration of a vaccine.

https://bit.ly/3gl1L67

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How Immunization Works?
Immunization protects against diseases in the same way. It gives your
immune system a practice run with a broken-up or weakened germ so it won’t give
you the disease. Your body learns how to recognize those germs and is ready to fight
them off before they can make you sick. You may get a fever or a headache after you
are given a vaccine. This is a common response to the vaccine and should pass
quickly. If you are worried any time, talk to your doctor or nurse. Once you’ve been
immunized, if you come across the same germ again, your body will remember it and
fight off the germ before you get sick. This is how immunization protects against
disease.

Why Childhood Immunizations Are Important?

Childhood vaccines or immunizations can seem overwhelming when you are
a new parent. Vaccine schedules recommended by agencies and organizations, such
as the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of
Family Physicians cover about 14 different diseases.
Vaccinations not only protect your child from deadly diseases, such as polio,
tetanus, and diphtheria, but they also keep other children safe by eliminating or greatly
decreasing dangerous diseases that used to spread from child to child.
A vaccine is a dead, or weakened version, or part of the germ that causes the
disease in question. When children are exposed to a disease in a vaccine form, their
immune system which is the body's germ-fighting machine, is able to build up
antibodies that protect them from contracting the disease if and when they are
exposed to the actual disease.
Here is a table of immunizations a baby should have:
Kinds of Immunization Age of Immunization
BCG (Anti-TB) 0-1month old and 7 years old
OPV (Anti-polio Vaccine) 0-1/2 month, 2 1/2 months, 32
months
DPT (Anti-diphtheria, Pertussis, 1 ½ months, 2 1/2months, 32
and Tetanus) months
Hepa B Vaccine 1 1/2 months, 2 1/1 months, 32
months
MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) 9 months to 1 year

RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD
Parenthood is the state of being a parent. Traditionally, it means being a father
or a mother of the biological child. When adoption is involved, the parents are the legal
father and mother of the child.
Responsible parenthood on the other hand, is the will and ability of parents to
detect and respond to the needs and desire of the children and the entire family and
helping them to become responsible citizen in the community as well as in the country.
According to the Department of Health, it is a shared responsibility of the husband and
the wife to determine and achieve the desired number, spacing, and timing of their

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children according to their own family life aspirations, taking into account psychological
preparedness, health status, socio-cultural, and economic concerns. The family, in its
varying forms, constitutes the primary focus of love, acceptance, and care toward
fulfilment to both parents and children. Failure to educate responsible parenthood to
families/couple in a certain country, will complicate social problems and issues which
eventually would possibly result to multiple consequences such as broken families,
multiple partnership of either the husband or the wife, children would tend to rebel
against their parents which would result to poor scholastic performance in school, early
marriages, drug addiction, bullying…etc. Although there are children who really have
a strong faith in God and strong enough that they look at the problems in the family as
challenges for them to finish their studies and make a difference in their own way.
These all depend on you actually, either be discouraged or be challenged! The choice
is yours.

Additional reading articles:

Table of Responsibilities
Toward Self Toward Spouse Toward Children Toward Parents
Takes care of Provides / Parents Young children:
one’s: addresses the -care for children -Help in
-Health needs of spouse: -Perform domestic household chores
-Career emotional, social, tasks e.g. cooking, -Study hard
-Education economic, cleaning the -Care for Siblings
spiritual/moral, etc. house, etc. and the elderly
-Earn a living Older children:
-Send children to -Take care of
school older parents
-Keep children in
good health

FAMILY STRUCTURES

Illustrated by Dan Jael Miguel

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Effects of Family Size on Health
The size of a family may affect the health of the family members on the following:
1. Nutritional Status: The state of the body with respect to each nutrient and to
the overall state of the body weight and condition (e.g. malnourish or
underweight, obese or overweight, etc.)
2. Morbidity: Exit from a state of physical or psychological well-being, resulting
from disease, illness, injury or sickness.
3. Risk Behaviors: Specific forms of behavior which are proven to be associated
with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or ill-health (e.g. using and
abusing drugs, drinking too much alcohol, eating disorders, etc.)
4. Utilization of Health Services: Experience of people as to their receipt of
health care services of different types.
Human overpopulation on the other hand, silently aggravating the forces behind:
1. global warming
2. environmental pollution
3. habitat loss (not enough place to live comfortably with)
4. intensive farming practices
5. exhausted consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water,
arable land and fossil fuels,
6. rising unemployment
7. rising living costs

ON FAMILY PLANNING
Family Planning (FP) is having the desired number of children and when you
want to have them by using safe and effective modern methods.
Modern Family Planning Methods (natural and artificial)
1. Abstinence 7. Symptothermal Method
2. Calendar method 8. Oral Contraceptives
3. Basal Body Temperature 9. Intrauterine Device
4. Cervical Mucus Method 10. Transdermal Patch
5. Coitus Interruptus 11. Vaginal Ring
6. Lactation Amenorrhea Method 12. Hormonal Injections

What’s More

Exploring Responsibilities!
Copy and reflect on the bible verse below and answer the questions. Write your
answers/ideas in your Health notebook.

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It
is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered,
and it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects trusts, hopes, and perseverance.”
I Corinthians 13:4-8

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Questions:
1. What message can you draw from the bible verse above?
2. How can you “put love into action” every day within your family?

PROCESS QUESTIONS: In your Health notebook, copy and answer the following
questions.
A. What is the importance of Unang Yakap?
B. Why do babies need immunization?
C. Why is breastfeeding important?
D. Why do you need to consider the family size when it comes to building your
own family?

What I Have Learned

Congratulations on finishing the learning module! You have just had an

amazing learning journey and for sure, you will also do the same in the succeeding
modules.
This time, please share your insights by completing the following sentence
prompts in your Health notebook.

What I Can Do

Task 5: SLOGAN MAKING!

Create a slogan in a short bond paper expressing the importance of having a small
family or a big family. Write a short explanation below the slogan being made.

Criteria: Creativity 15 points

Relevance 10 points
Idea 15 points
TOTAL 40 points

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 Assessment
Answer the following questions in your Health notebook.
I. Identification: Identify the concept described in each item.
1. The ideal and traditional form of feeding an infant.
2. The period when couples are ready to embrace their responsibilities to
care for the children bringing them quality life.
3. Family structure when two families combine (for example: two single
parents marry).
4. An important way to protect your baby from life-threatening diseases.

II. Multiple choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

5. Why do people marry?
A. For economic security
B. For love
C. For social status
D. All of the above
6. Why do couples want to have children?
A. Children are considered wealth of parents
B. Religious institutions require it
C. Society expects couples to have an offspring
D. Strengthens the bond between husband and wife
7. Which is an ingredient of a happy married life?
A. Commitment
B. Love
C. Sincerity
D. All of the above
8. Which do you think is the family structure of extended families?
A. Include members such as parents, grandparents, and cousins
B. Include one or more children who were born into other families
C. Include the combination of two families, like two single parent
marriage
D. Include one parent and at least one child

III. Enumeration

9. Give five (5) Family Planning methods (natural or artificial)

10. List down the family structures.

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What I know
Answers may vary
What’s In
Answers may vary
What’s More
Answers may vary
What I have Learned
Answers may vary
What I Can Do
Assessment
1. Breastfeeding
2. Parenthood
3. Blended Family
4. Immunization (vaccines)
5. D
6. D
7. D
8. A
III. Modern Family Planning
Methods
1. Abstinence
2. Calendar Method
3. Basal Body Temperature
4. Cervical Mucus Method
5. Coitus Interruptus
6. lactation Amenorrhea Method
7. Symptothermal Method
8. Oral Contraceptives Method
9. Transdermal Patch
10 Vaginal Ring
11. Hormonal Injections
12.Intrauterine Device
Family Structures
Nuclear Family
Blended Family
Extended Family
Adoptive Family
Single Parent
Couples without Children
Answer Key
References

Physical Education and Health : Learner’s Module pp. 278-280, 289-294

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgUkh4enf3o
https://nurseslabs.com/family-planning-methods/
https://bit.ly/318iF3q
https://bit.ly/3gazYFw
https://bit.ly/2E6qUnZ
https://bit.ly/3aFcF5s

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