Ilang mag-asawang nasira ang relasyon, umaasang magkakaroon ng divorce sa Pilipinas
Ilang mag-asawang nasira ang relasyon, umaasang magkakaroon ng divorce sa Pilipinas
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00:00 Many Filipinos are hoping that the country will officially divorce them
00:05 so that they can be free from the broken and abusive relationship
00:10 and start a new one.
00:12 A political scientist is against this.
00:15 This is what Benji Durango has to say.
00:17 Our parents forgot about our marriage.
00:22 The wife and husband have been separated for 14 years,
00:24 but they are still ashamed to tell the story of the 54-year-old woman
00:27 whom we have hidden under the name Gloria.
00:30 Her husband was kind to her.
00:33 In 1992, she was divorced from her husband.
00:36 They got married in 2000.
00:38 They had four children together.
00:40 But in 2010, the husband and wife separated.
00:42 The 18-year-old couple broke their 18-year-old relationship.
00:47 How painful is this?
00:49 Of course, it's painful.
00:51 I can't move on.
00:53 Of course, my children are left behind.
00:55 14 years have passed,
00:57 and Gloria has forgotten the past.
00:59 She has a new partner.
01:01 Her husband has a different family.
01:03 But because Gloria is married to her first husband,
01:06 she knows that there is no happy ending to her new partner.
01:09 Their happiness has stopped.
01:11 He was also a victim.
01:12 Yes, it's a story.
01:13 My life and his life are the same.
01:16 So you understand each other.
01:18 Their hope is the same, a divorce.
01:21 In the United Nations,
01:23 we and Vatican City are the only ones who are not divorced.
01:26 Even if the divorce is not in line with the Filipino culture,
01:28 it is what is demanded
01:30 by the growing number of broken relationships.
01:33 According to the Office of the Solicitor General,
01:36 10,000 to 11,000 annulment cases
01:39 have been filed annually in the country
01:41 in the past decades.
01:43 According to Prof. Antonio Contreras,
01:45 a political scientist,
01:47 it is not possible to endure a relationship
01:50 that cannot be maintained by a husband.
01:52 Sometimes, we can say that
01:55 there are things that happen in a person's life
01:57 that we need to separate from
01:59 because that is what is best.
02:01 In the Philippines,
02:02 it has been tried several times
02:04 in the Senate and Congress.
02:05 First, in 1999.
02:07 It was followed by 2000,
02:09 2014,
02:10 2018,
02:11 and 2020.
02:13 The trials went through the hole of the fence,
02:15 but it was still not passed.
02:17 But now,
02:18 the new House Bill No. 93
02:21 is being passed.
02:23 The Absolute Divorce Act.
02:25 In the new divorce bill,
02:27 11 are considered to be the absolute divorce
02:30 in a relationship,
02:32 including physical and emotional abuse,
02:34 addiction,
02:35 homosexuality,
02:37 sexual intercourse,
02:38 or being legally separated for two years.
02:40 This is not for anyone.
02:43 There is a judicial process and a basis.
02:46 Earlier in the news,
02:47 the basis were enumerated.
02:49 This is not just a capitulation.
02:52 This is to give a second chance
02:54 to have a second chance to live,
02:56 a second chance for people to make mistakes
02:59 and to have happiness.
03:02 This is good news for Gloria.
03:04 And if she will be able to win,
03:05 she knows that she will be favorable to her law.
03:08 She hopes that
03:09 this will be the answer to her long-standing prayer
03:12 to be free from the mistakes of others.
03:15 For her to be happy.
03:17 Why happy?
03:19 Of course, if you're free.
03:21 Benji Durango for Pamansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.