Abstract:
This study attempted to describe the “rebellious behaviors” of all Pastors’
Kids ages 15-24 in all Protestant Churches in Quezon City, placing an emphasis on
the perceptions and prevalence of rebellion, factors that led to engaging in
rebellious acts and the interventions made by the family and the church to prevent
the Pastor’s Kid from doing such things. Participants were 174 Pastors’ Kids from
all Protestant Churches in Quezon City. A pre-tested survey questionnaire with
semi-closed ended questions was utilized for data gathering. The results of the
study revealed that perceptions of the Pastor’s Kids regarding smoking, drinking,
and illegal use and abuse of drugs were defined as rebellious acts. Majority of the
Pastors’ Kid have tried smoking and drinking once in their lives and none of them
have ever tried using illegal drugs. Of those Pastors’ Kid who tried smoking, none
of them continued smoking for the past six months but 66% of those who tried
drinking continued to drink alcohol for the past six months. Reported reasons as to
why do they try or continue drinking and smoking were curiosity, peer pressure and
because it’s the trend. Church Interventions like seminars, sermon of the Pastor
besides their parents, and sermon of the Parent-Pastor appeared to be very effective
than family interventions. However, the turn out of the attendance of the
participants in such intervention is 36% out of all the respondents who said that
church interventions were very effective. The study may assume that majority of
the Pastors’ Kid are trying and/or continuing in engaging in rebellious behaviors
such as smoking and drinking. Qualitative data says that reasons are
environmental—school and health reasons. Recommendations were made to help
decrease and prevent the involvement of Pastors’ Kid in such rebellious acts.
