![]() ![]() Yet, we had divorce-like pracces before the Spaniards colonized us. They say that divorce is a foreign concept, it is not Filipino. We have heard senators express views against divorce on the basis of F ilipino culture. We had divorce laws before despite not having it now. Divorce, is again a hot topic these days with the ling in both Houses of Congress of bills that will bring divorce back to the country. I t is a duty that should extend to circumstances whereby this well-being is being compromised by the inability to break free from irremediably broken marriages and start anew in healthier family and living arrangements. While the State connues to recognize the sancty of family life and endeavors to protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social instuon consistent with Arcle II, Secon 12 of t he 1987 Constuon, it is also dutybound to promote and protect the well-being of its cizens. Studies likewise show that it is not divorce that creates well-being issues for children, it is bearing witness to the troubled marriages of their parents2. Studies have shown that breaking free from such unions and being given a fresh start result in improved health outcomes for women1. It has been well- documented that the absence of a divorce law has had disproporonate eects on women who are more oen the vicms of abuse within marriages, and who are forced to remain in joyless and unhealthy unions because of the dearth of legal opons. Despite this, the number and proporon of Filipinos who are separate has been increasing over me - demonstrang that the denial of legal remedies to those seeking to dissolve their union has largely been an ineecve way of upholding the policy of the State to ke ep families together. CHRISTIAN RALPH SEVILLA AB POLSCI 1A POSITION PAPER IN FUNDAMENTALS: The Philippines is the only country in the world, aside from the Vacan City, where divorce is not legal. ![]()
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