QUESTION OF THE DAY
Do you agree to the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani?
II am for the legalization of divorce.
But NOT JUST \a simple divorce, wherein only basic grounds like totally irreconcilable differences and the couple having been legally separated first are among the major requirements.
I/’m not totally aware of the provisions of the proposed divorce law but these are my personal suggestions:
Apart from a THOROUGHLY EQUAL partition of the conjugal assets, the husband must have at least 15 percent more of the total value IN CASH to be given to the wife before the divorce is granted.
This is to ensure that the wife, and the kids, WON’T START FROM ZERO in their new life.
The man will be required to REGULARLY INFORM the ex-wife on EVERY EMPLOYMENT or BUSINESS he goes into, including the COMPLETE ADDRESSES of his office and new home, once the divorce is granted.
The family will be UNCONDITIONALLY entitled to a minimum of 15 percent of the man’s TOTAL EARNINGS, until ALL THE KIDS finish college.
In case of sudden death or incapacity of the ex-wife to collect the child support, arrangements will be made between the eldest child and the man for the transmittal of the funds.
The arrangement will be prepared by a lawyer for the kids and duly notarized for legality and protection of the children’s welfare.
In case the man claims unemployment or loss of income, a thorough investigation will be first conducted by court-designated probers before amendments to the child support are initiated.
If iit turns out that the man is LYING and is just trying to avoid child support, the penalty will be imprisonment and seizure of ALL of his assets at that time or 50 percent of it if he already has a new family by then.
Both the man and the woman WILL NOTY BE ALLOWED TO RE-MARRY for the next three years after the divorce is granted.
This is to further ensure that they will devote all the time they have in preparing the kids emotionally, psychologically and financially for the new life that they will face following the separation of their parents.
Lastly, to minimize the possible baby boom and rise in the number of broken families that will most likely follow, divorce will only be granted TWICE to anyone. NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER.
I’ll appreciate further insights from you, boys and girls.
Thirteen of our friends on “Commission on Higher Tuition”:
KIM ALLORDE of Paranaque
No longer alarming but it just sucks for people like me who can't be hired and can't go to college due to financial bills of the past. With our credentials being withheld as a guarantee of our payment.. This sucks. Why are we not being protected from this?
DANILO PACOMIO of Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
I bet you, if you do an audit trail on the overhead expenses for these 324 colleges and universities, you'll unearth some of the fraud.
DELI FRANCE
The issue of tuition fee increases is no longer alarming. People are already sedated by the annual tradition of tuition increases while the quality of education is decreasing. Education has transformed into a plain business.
GALILLEO ESTOCADA
Ang edukasyon ay karapatan!! Hindi ito dapat ibinibili o isang kalakal na dapat bilhin.
ARSENIO ANTONIO of Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany
This thing will never stop. Our system is patterned with the US. Our brain is programmed like them -- we talk like them, we almost look like them, we eat like them and we live like them.. Now. you want change? Be a REAL FILIPINO.
ESTHER UYOCO of Oceanside, California
Bakit ba di makontrol ng DepEd yang pagtaas ng tuition? Madami nga di na makapagarall. Pinapatay ninyo ang essence ng edukasyon. Business na iyan ah. Sana naman maawa sila. Kaya halos siksikan na sa public schools.
MANUEL TOLENTINO JR. of Manila
3 businesses that will never fail – Education is one.
RITZ CONSTANTINO of Victorias City, Negros Occidental
Wala dead na naman mga magulang nito. Marami na naman di makapagaaral ngayong taon.
MALOU MARIANO
Are they also raising teachers’ wages?
EVELYN DIAO
Do these schools really have the approval of Ched to raise their tuition?
JOSIE PATAWARAN of Hong Kong
Lagi namang ganiyan. Basta magpapasukan, itinataas nila ang tuition.
SIGRID SMITH of South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Good for the family with money. How about the family with nothing? Their dreams will die in vain.
JOHN PHILIP BAMBA of Paranaque
Kaya ba ang mahusay na edukasyon ay para lamang sa mga may kakayahan at mayayaman? Paano yung may mga angkin na husay sa pagaaral?
Two of our friends on “Double talk Pnoy style”:
ROMULUS BELTRAN of Quezon City
I do not foresee Penoy instituting reform of any kind unless we can find ways to compel him to do so.
ALBERTO LEE of Houston, Texas, USA
I agree with you on this one.
Two of our friends on “What I like about the RH Bill”:
OWEN GUE of Cavite City
Sex education should be taught in school, particularly in the secondary level, where most peer pressure and influence is likely to prey on the mind. Almost everybody want to try anything, if not everything and parental supervision is starting to lose its footing. Proper upbringing and having an open communication is vital and should be initiated by parents themselves.
MBW
Completely agree! 30
Ferdinand Marcos, hindi usapin dito na naging diktador sya ng panahon na sya ang Pangulo ng Pilipinas. Usapin dito kung paano nya ipinagtanggol ang Pilipinas ng panahon ng digmaan.Halimbawa ang ama mo matapos kayo palakin ay naging kriminal, hindi nangangahulugan na hindi s'ya naging mabuting ama.
ReplyDeleteKuya Boyet, mukhang matagal na iyong three years na mungkahi mo para mag-remarry ang mga nag-divorce na. Tama lang yung after one year ay puwede nang mag-asawang muli. Biruin mo naman, tatlong taon na mental torture lalo na doon sa mga natorotot. Madaling sang-ayunan yang mungkahi mo para doon sa mga hindi pinagtaksilan.
ReplyDeleteHeheh...I think the Pro-Divorce people won't approve on that suggestions, simply because their intention in divorce is only to free themselves from their perceived problem and impatiently find another one to satisfy what they want. But I agree on this line "...and rise in the number of broken families that will most likely follow", meaning a children from divorce families will multiply exponentially divorce cases.
ReplyDelete“Marriage is supposed to be forever. From an idealistic non-legal standpoint, the sole reason for marriage should be love; the kind of love that transcends time and withstands any impediments that life throws our way. From a legal perspective, on the other hand, no less than the Philippine Constitution (Art. XV, Sec. 2) and the Family Code (Art. 1) expressly characterize marriage as the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution. The law states that it is a special contract of a permanent union between a man and a woman. It is inviolable. It is permanent. In short, you don’t think of divorce when you get married.”(attyatwork.com)
IMO, the future of the children is more important than their parents who cannot reconcile their indifference.
Children whose parents have divorced are increasingly the victims of abuse. They exhibit more health, behavioral, and emotional problems, are involved more frequently in and drug abuse, and have higher rates of suicide.
Children of divorced parents perform more poorly in reading, spelling, and math. They also are more likely to repeat a grade and to have higher drop-out rates and lower rates of college graduation.
Families with children that were not poor before the divorce see their income drop as much as 50 percent. Almost 50 percent of the parents with children that are going through a divorce move into poverty after the divorce.
Religious worship, which has been linked to better health, longer marriages, and better Family life, drops after the parents divorce.
(http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/divorce/divorce.html)