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I on the other hand was raised without having heard my parents quarrel or shout against each other in front of us. My mother always told me that whenever they have problems, they discussed it in private. I don't have any complaints as far as the relationship of my parents is concerned. But i am for divorce why? because it's just like giving each of the couple to have a second lease to search for their own happiness. That's why there's alimony. In the philippines, it's the norm that women are the first to give up their career to stay at home and take care of the kids, more often the stay at home dads only occur when they don't have their own qualifications. The other reason why i agree with having a divorce is because we already have an annulment which to me is a total mockery of the entire marriage system. Just imagine living with someone for a couple of years and when the relationship turns sour they cry that one of the parties involved is emotionally incapacitated and therefore the marriage should not have been not valid in the first place. I consider that a joke, if the couple had been living together for a long time, had kids and everything, the most applicable course of action if the relationship turns sour should be divorce. Having an annulment makes it appear as if nothing happened, if that's the case would the woman get back her virginity? can she get back everything that had been taken from her or she'd given up? certainly not that works the same for the men. If they had kids, what would that make them? illegitimate once the annulment gets approved? If they won't allow divorce then should not allow annulment as well.

Well to me marriage is something very sacred hat two partners share with one another and it's a decision that has to be given some thought because they will be binded together for the rest of their lives and yeah if they are unhappy then their marriage will not survive. Love is very important in marriage to survive.Love is what keeps most marriages alive these days. My parents are still together after so long, but my mom says that she wouldn't be with my dad if they didn't have us you know because if they didn't have kids then there would be no reason for them to be together which makes me really sad at times.I don't really believe my mom though what I think is that she does love my dad because she does get very jealous when my dad goes to run a simple errand and takes long and she starts questioning him by asking him if he was with a girlfriend. So I really do think that she really does love him. Anyway marriage is a bond that two people share and it can't be broken so easily because love is very strong.

Hello aguas, this is really sad, I remember my dad's co-worker mentioning it of having that divorce should be legalized. I believe divorce would surely destroy the sanctity of marriage. the saying "for sickness and health" will be demeaning because people would get married out of happiness and money. in the US, illegal immigrants are using Marriage as a way to get it, be citizens and "divorce" to get out of it, with out knowing if Love did truly exist in the marriage. i wouldn't want it. people should really getting into long courtship before marriage, that's my opinion. Annulment or Divorce? it's both heartache.

Let's make it clear that a government is put up for the good welfare of its citizens. But these citizens are the primary responsible for their own well being. We never wanted a family to be broken. We never wanted a husband and wife to get separated. But this things do happen even without divorce. And they are separating not because of the government, but because of themselves. But they cannot legally separate BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT. Now that the government is giving them options to divorce, then why don't we give it a chance. After all, you cannot divorce your marriage without a valid reason. It is not a law that if you wake up one morning you wanted divorce and in the afternoon you're already single. LET THERE BE THE LAW, AND LET THE CITIZEN DRIVE THEIR LIVES.

I think its only Malta and the Philippines that does not permit divorce. True is I don't really see the major difference between divorce and annulment. Is there even a difference at all if your marriage is divorce as compared to annulled?

I do not agree in divorce. If that happens we would become like those in other countries, after marrying for a week they will file for divorce because they find their partner boring. There is no perfect marriage in this world.

well, it can be both ways, it can give so much freedom to the abused women who can easily divorce their abusive husbands. that is a fact. it would cost less than an annulment right... also... it does not make any much difference. how can you say that a marriage is null and void and has not happened in the first place when you have all the photos, the bills, the videos to prove its existence... people only find a way around it, making one of the couple incompetent, psychologically incapacitated... etc... you see, its just the same! why not make the process easier and with less cost, and more "true".

I as well don't agree with this bill. I believe that no man can pull apart what God has binded together in Holy Matrimony. This bill will also create more problems than solve them. Instead of working out a couple's differences we tend to give them the easy way out through divorce. That would leave lots of broken families and misguided children.

I haven't read much of the probation and content of the proposed bill, but I think divorce is needed here in our country, not the type of divorce though that will make the legality of marriage void a piece of cake. you see time has change and we need to cope with it,. there are a lot of marriage that continue to suffer, and so women i know who are already out of marriage (not legally) but still suffer because they can't move on because they are tied with the past. I say yes to a divorce with a comprehensible probation that will protect every individual specially the children.

Before, I never want to agree with it thinking it would save my parents from being seperated but instead - it got worse. lol. I am really tired to be their shock absorber like whenever they have problems regarding about money - like who's giving who to me this month. Pretty tiring and I am a little deaf now because of them. LOL So I would have to say, yes. Not because I have my personal reasons but I am also speaking of half of the people who doesn't want to be trapped anymore - legal cases like infidelity, harrassment, abuse and many more to mention. I know Philippines is composed of conservative people who values the sacrament of marriage - but in some cases, my heart is really for those who have been victims of domestic abuse and those mentioned above.

you know my parents got married in the court house there marriage last for 31 before they got divorced and there marriage ended in a court house. i always thought there was way too much put into a wedding especially with the rates of divorce going up here. I wanna get married but if I do it won't be elaborate. I'll still have a dress. I don't know if it will be white or not. I don't think it would really matter for me now days. I mean I have a 5 year old so it's not like white would mean the same if you know what I mean. So I guess it would just depend you know. I think the reason people are having so much divorce is because it's so easy to get a divorce. They require only paper and reasons for the divorce and evidence that a divorce is necessary. Unlike a marriage where so much planning goes into one, plus them requiring counseling before you get married.

I don't agree with this bill. This will worsen the marriage problem here in the Philippines. People will enter marriage without thinking that this will be forever.

Divorce is costly in many ways. Even though I've been married for 27 years I continuously ask, "Since when is getting married a requirement?" What matters is good decisions and happiness!

I do not agree with you ,Bill for divorce will mitigate problems in family,If marriage is carried happily ,it is good ,if it is burden it must be broken ,in this war ,ladies have to become more independent not just simple house wife ,if change their life will be far better.

I am for the sanctity of the marriage. The reasons are in the vow. If some difficulty crops in the process, the nullity and the annulment could terminate the vows. But divorce is the disfigurement not only of the concept of marriage but also the two people involved, and the children, if they have some.