The Pastor’s Kid: A Study on the Rebellion of Pastor’s Kids

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.