The Philippines is the only country ( and also Vatican) in the world where divorce is not legal. Except for Muslim Filipinos, which have its own marriage law.
Any Filipino couple who wants to be legally separated must resort to a costly and time-consuming annulment case. These procedure which means voiding the marriage that should not happen in the first place on different grounds and reasons can take years. The majority of separated couples, can't just bear the cost, time and purely technical grounds of these legal route to be able for them to marry again legally. Worst, they are prone to adultery cases which is a criminal case in the Philippines because many just live separately and live with another partner. They start again a new family without marrying because the State will see it as illegal.
Many divorce law has already pass in Congress but all faced a strong opposition from old-timer politicians and Catholic Church which 80% of Filipinos belong.
Urbanization and woman empowerment in this modern society causes the rising Filipinos who want divorce because they are not tied to rural settings of traditional lifestyle and pressure from extended family to keep, at all cost their marriage.
Filipinos values family, and the Constitution on principle, guarantee to protect this basic unit of society. But, the rising married couples who want legal separation must be address. Until, Filipinos voted for a younger generation of lawmakers which is more open-minded the country can have divorce law or at least be creative enough to make annulment cases much more affordable and not time-consuming.
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Their constitution really needs to be amended. Since the constitution is making divorce extremely difficult, it’ll be encouraging extra marital affairs, even among the So called religious men and women. When a man is involved in adulterous act, who will judge him?
Is it the judge, who is involved in the same act and has not been revealed yet? Or the pastors or rev. Father who is also having extra marital affairs with three members of the choir or ursher or the congregation? (Let he who is without sin be the first to cast a stone).
Marrying is a very easy thing to do, but staying in marriages is the hardest thing to do especially if the couples are not compatible. We’ve heard of so many cases in marriage whereby the couples are always having one issues or the other and within themselves they knew divorce is the best solution. And when they divorce, they will leave happily ever after.
Staying with who one is not compatible with is like staying in bondage because you’ll always have one reason or the other to be angry with the person.
Some couples feel they can work something out, they end up staying longer together and end up hating themselves more.
The next worst thing after hell is a bad marriage
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Thanks for the reply.
The power of Catholic Church play big roles here, politician feels they'll lose votes when they do against the will of the church. They only think for themselves and not for the benefits of the people and the country.
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I understand these things politicians do just to remain relevant
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