Pnoy not in favor of divorce but in favor of marriage after legal separation

In my part I do agree with the Divorce because there are cases were in two people were force to be together by marriage because of their family interest even though there is no love between them. Only for the sake of families royalty that is why this to person accept the marriage, this is not a rare case in our community. There are those female who are unlucky to be with the guy they truly love because of their social status and other differences that some time a marriage leads to unhappy family. I have an officemate with this kind of stories that is why she was forced to stow away and leave her luxurious life in their home town.

There's not much difference if I were to ask. And I agree with Pnoy, I think this will be good for the general public. It just needs time for people to see the value of this.

I agree with you that the children are the losers either in divorce in legal separation. I think PNoy, not being a lawyer, confused annulment with legal separation because we keep saying that we do not have divorce. I do think we have something better though, that is annulment. Annulment dissolves the bonds of marriage and therefore you have no obligations afterwards, no alimony or support to the spouse. I think that it would be better to catch the problem before the marriage. There should be some extensive preparation before getting married to prevent dissolution. I just don't know right now what that preparation should be.

ANNULMENT is the choice. people who separated will pay dearly for not being ready and being separated just because of problems that can't be solved. i won't give in to this.

This is a sensitive topic for Filipinos that won't go away. I think it's time that we face it. More and more couples are going their separate ways for a lot of reasons. As for PNoy's suggestion that couples can remarry after legal separation, I don't think that's a good idea. You are just legally separated but you're still married. One thing we need to address this issue, is to keep an open mind. True that the children are ones who suffer but don't they suffer even more when they see that their parents are fighting everyday?

Anything that breaks up a duly constituted marriage, especially the one solemnized in the Church, simply stinks. I have people close to my heart who have separated and are looking for new partners. I still love them, but my heart can only pray for them. I am neither for divorce nor for legal separation with possible remarriage. What I advocate is an endorsement by P'noy of all programs available in the land that prepares young people for marriage, and perhaps counsel them about whether marriage is good for them or not. One of these programs are the pre-cana seminars of the Catholic Church, similar programs in other churches if any, the seminars conducted by DSWD --- with enhancements in the delivery for God's sake. People go there for compliance, but not for learning. There's got to be an accreditation process for marriage speakers, which should include an annual assessment of their own marriages. If a so-called "speaker" has a break-up in his own marriage life, his accreditation should be revoked! But if the "speaker" has consistently shown exemplary performance in his own marriage life, then his accreditation should be upgraded to some higher class.

There are some technicalities in here but in essence they are just the same in my opinion. I think when we talk about divorce you only talk and negotiate about some financial matters like separation of properties and responsibilities of each couple to provide for their children and probably the custody of the child can be contested in here. Same goes with Legal Separation, but with the provision that they will never be allowed to remarry for as long as their lives. They may go into living in but will not be recognized by law that they are legally married couple but domestic partners only. I do not know what to think about this issue but I think PNoy only commented on this to assure the public that the issue about Kris is not his concern being the President but his concern as private citizen. If he is the president he could easily implement Divorce to favor his sister's plea to separate against his husband.

Yes, we know that in every steps we made as separation talks, the children are the loser. Because we are not the country that divorce has implemented, we born raised about the family closed tight together. And until now this is goin. But we know in this time, many couples are suffering of being together as they are not free from each other because of knot tied bind them. Although there are never ending marital problems. And if they know only, that they facing a problem at present, that will cause of separation, and yet they did not have children as being affected in the later part of their marriage. Really we are not free from problems...

Divorce per se is not bad, but the people who abuses this privilege are to be questioned morally. I think what PNoy was trying to get across is why create a new law which could cause a lot of debate from the moralist groups if we can just rectify or amend an existing one. True indeed, legal separation becomes useless if you are still bound with the tie of marriage. In the first place, you wouldnt choose to be separated with your partner if things are still reconcilable. I think our lawmakers should look into this, not all people are capable of having their marriage annulled because its very costly.