Three generations of separadas

The researchers aimed to identify the factors that contributed to the marital separation of women in three generations. The research was descriptive employing the case study approach. Samples involved two sets of separated women belonging to one family, representing three (3) generations, each set consisted of three women: the mother (Ist generation), daughter (2nd generation), and granddaughter (3rd generation). The separadas\u27 significant others were also interviewed. Data was gathered through various instruments which were interview guides (for the in-depth interview with the separadas and significant others), an attitude scale towards separation, a self-constructed attitude scale towards men, cassette tape, and a tape recorder. Content analysis was used to analyze the data and it was found that these separadas have common personality characteristics and family features. The personality characteristics common to the separadas contributory to marital separation were: nagging, strict, and martyr. Common family features were also found and these were early marrying age, husband had vices, absence of financial support from the husband, wife battering, absence of father, conflict with the mother, lived with mother or in-laws during marriage, conflict with in-laws, no courtship, low socioeconomic status, and mother\u27s meddling. From the family features, another category was formulated because it was found that the husbands also had common personality characteristics. The common personality characteristics of the husbands were: irresponsibility, violent tendencies, and infidelity. It was also found that the separadas\u27 environment such as their being in the low socioeconomic status and being part of the Filipino culture has a contributory effect on the marital separation. These factors: the personality characteristics of the separadas, the personality characteristics of the husbands, the familiy features, and the environment, all interacted and lead to the marital separation in three generations