Group 3:
Muñoz, Christian Marquez, Ray
Ochoa, Lance Buduan, Anton

CHAPTER I: The Problem and Its Background
“The lived experiences and lifestyle of students before, during, and after joining small fraternities in Mawaque”
Introduction
a. Background of the Study

Today in our society, there are many Fraternities that can be joined. Some are for brotherhood, some are for religious purposes, professions and many other forms of fraternities. Many students are interested to join fraternities for various reasons. Unfortunately, the real meaning of the word fraternity has changed. People nowadays think of a fraternity as a group of notorious brats claiming for brotherhood, who does chaotic and immoral acts. And that’s why people try to create their own small fraternities doing as such.
In a certain community in a mabalacat, there are small fraternities created by students from a school in the community. These small fraternities make trouble in the community. They sometimes make riots and rambles in the streets of the community. This is a problem that the authorities are having a hard time to deal with since the members of these fraternities are high school students and they are not yet at the legal age to be imprisoned. Not only that, but these small fraternities ruin their lives. For example, instead of going home after class and spending the time studying or spending quality time with their families, they get involved into riots and rambles in the park or outside their school. These rambles sometimes are more than just fist fighting; these fraternities sometimes throw fragile bottles at each other or even stab each other with a knife. We believe that these teenagers are more than what they do. That is why we want to study this problem and find an appropriate solution for this problem.
A fraternity (Latin frater: "brother") is a brotherhood, though the term