by ALFI | Mar 28, 2018 | Divorce
President Duterte’s Views on Divorce by Prof. Bernardo M. Villegas, Ph.D. Part 1 Children in the future generations will be very grateful to President Duterte if he is able to prevent a divorce law from being passed under his watch. His recent announcement that he is...
by ALFI | Mar 12, 2018 | Divorce, Issues
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE OF DIVORCE SUMMARY: Over the past several decades, social science has produced a vast body of literature which shows that divorce, or marital dissolution, seriously harms children and society, and provides no real benefit to spouses. THE SOCIAL...
by ALFI | Mar 7, 2018 | Divorce
Divorce also has devastating consequences on adolescents as they go through the most difficult period of their lives from the psychological standpoint. Penn State sociologist Paul Amato estimated how adolescents would fare if the U.S. society had the same percentage...
by ALFI | Mar 7, 2018 | Divorce
Pro-divorce legislators and pundits are hoping against hope that under the Duterte Administration they have a greater chance of advancing their cause, which abundant empirical evidence has demonstrated to have devastating consequences on society. Those who would want...
by ALFI | Mar 7, 2018 | Divorce
We’ve seen them on TV and videos. We have seen the anguish, anger, and unbearable fear of young people who survived. One survivor who was being interviewed, just faltered: “I can’t do it, I’m sorry, I can’t,” and he choked and walked away. Entering the feelings of the...
by ALFI | Feb 21, 2018 | Divorce
I write in defense of the Filipino family. Our honorable legislators are once again pushing to approve divorce bills, which will damage the stability and unity of the Filipino family. Instead of protecting marriage as an inviolable social institution (Article XV,...