Efforts of Young Parents in Meeting Children’s Physiological Needs

Abstract

The purpose of this research to describe the efforts of young parents in meeting children’s physiological needs in Tanggulangin Village, Kejayan, Pasuruan. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. Determining the location of research using purposive area, determination of research subject using snowball sampling. Data collection uses observation, interviews and documentation, while the data analysis process used is data reduction phase, data presentation and withdrawal of conclusion. The results showed that the economic conditions of young parents were low. These conditions are due to their work only as abusive workers whose wages are less than the UMR. Wages received by young parents are insufficient to meet the daily basic needs and physiological needs of the child. Therefore young parents make an effort to stay alive. The efforts made by the young parents are by optimizing the resources that are owned by doing the side work and allowing their wives to work, further implementing a provident living strategy and utilizing Social networking by borrowing money to parents, relatives, neighbors when in urgent situation. These efforts are done by young parents in order to meet the needs of families and the physiological needs of children.