WELFARE FUNCTIONS OF THE FILIPINO FAMILY.

The article provides information on the welfare functions of the Filipino family. For the study forty-eight families in a government housing project in Quezon City, Philippines, were taken at random and interviewed. Twenty-seven of the forty-eight families found to have dependent relatives living with them. The number of relatives per family varied from one to four giving a total of forty-six. A study of the economic effect of the "welfare burden" showed that smaller families with a slightly higher income were more apt to have dependent relatives. Most of the families reported that the presence of dependent relatives made no difference in their recreational habits while about a fifth of the families said that the presence of relatives enabled them to go out more frequently. The Filipino family is engaged in the extension of relief but is not functioning as a social welfare agency. In the Filipino family, not only the father and mother exercise authority over the children. The protective attitudes frequently shown by the Filipino family nay be a hazard to individual enterprise.