Children and the divorce law

THE proposed law on divorce is inarguably a contentious one. The debate is and will be endless while Filipino couples go about their married and live-in lifestyle like it’s just about consensual arrangement, and the law has nothing to do about it.

In fact, thousands of estranged couples move one, whether one invokes the law on annulment by simply having one spouse admit to psychological ailment, or not.

What we find to be grossly wanting in the law on annulment and the proposed law on divorce are enforceable terms for the protection of children, the guarantee of education and health and welfare by one or both spouses.

So far, the law on annulment and the proposed divorced bill talks mostly about required tedious processes to qualify and avail of the law. Nothing is being discussed for an enforceable provision that will compel estranged couples availing of the law to focus on the duties and obligations to the children of soon to be estranged couples.  

We all know that there is no law that can force two persons to live together that ceased to live in love, in spite of a legal contract, but we need a law in the country today that will force couples to acknowledge and deliver on their responsibilities to protect children brought forth by their union, and separation.

Estranged couples will and can do all to be separated whether amicably, legally or not, but it’s the children who stand to suffer the most who cannot do anything to make their parents help them move on with their lives. 

Corruption & correction

CORRUPTION happens between two parties.  The Bureau of Corrections seems to magnify that.  As the ongoing Senate probe on prison scandals indicate, the prisoner and his guard—and even the inmate’s doctor—conspire to commit corruption.   Wealthy inmates cough out bundles of hush money to freely engage in drug trading and prostitution. It’s bizarre, indeed, that correctors of crooked peope allow themselves to be corrupted by prisoners they are supposed to reform and send back to society’s good graces.  Truly, money speaks louder than words.  So exasperated is President Duterte in his avowed fight against corruption that he is now on the hunt for a saint to run the Bureau of Corruption—err, Corrections.  Virtually impossible to achieve but there’s no harm in trying—as always.  So, Godspeed, Mr. President.  We are behind you till kingdom come.

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