Philippines is the only country in the world, save from the Vatican City, where divorce is illegal. Many, mostly women are trapped in abusive, irremediable, and long dead marriages but are not able to separate from their spouses and start a new life because there is no option affordable. The only option is annulment which is prohibitively expensive costing 300 to 500 thousand pesos, takes more than a year to a decade more, and mostly, no certainty of getting approved.

There is divorce, however, in the Philippines but only to Muslims and to indigenous people. This is unfair to all other Filipinos who need divorce. Lawmakers and others disapprove of divorce because of religious views and pride. Some are proud for the Philippines being called the last bastion of Christianity banning divorce.

The total well-being of children and the abused partners are at stake by staying in the mentioned marriages.

Divorce is not new in the Philippines. It was legal in 1917. Recent public surveys now show that more than half of the majority of Filipinos agree on divorce.

Divorce is long overdue in the Philippines. Reinstitute divorce in the Philippines NOW.