Some Disturbing Facts
Last night, I went out with Level Up CEO Jane Walker, Marketing Director Jake San Diego, Level Up Brazil Managing Director Andrea, and Gravity’s Global Business Division Head, Changki Kim. We went to Greenbelt and ate at Nuvo restaurant and it was really a good opportunity to relax and unwind after the long and stressful week. What disturbed we was what Changki shared. According to him, 33% of all married couples in Korea end up getting divorced, while around 43% of children in Chile are raised by single parents. In fact, he said a lot of people in Korea view getting divorced once as mandatory.
While this country is constantly ravaged by political problems, I can’t help but let out a sigh of relief that we’re living in a country that respects the sanctity of marriage. In one of the talks of motivational speaker Francis Kong, he shared that his best advice to married men is that the best gift they can give to their children is to love and honor their mother. Imagine who society would be today if there were less broken families? Anyway, that’s for another blog post.
I hope that the day never comes that those same numbers are applied to the Philippines.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
as far as i see hindi problema ang divorce dito.. kasi walang pambayad.. joke. di kc legal.. anyway my point is.. ang problema sa atin eh yung mga unplanned pregnancy today that will lead to a marriage tomorrow and divorce in the futute.. and that fututre divorce could (wag naman sana) be legal here… :sob:
divorce isn’t a problem today… ..it will be in the future…
July 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Monogamy is one of several mating systems observed in animals. The amount of social monogamy in animals varies across taxa, with over 90 percent of birds engaging in social monogamy but only 7 percent of mammals engaging in social monogamy.
The incidence of sexual monogamy appears quite rare in the animal kingdom.
It is becoming clear that even animals that are socially monogamous engage in extra-pair copulations.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
It’s not really that disturbing. Just look at America.
There may not be a lot of divorced couples here in the Phils but there sure are a lot of separated ones.
Ang I’ve always agreed to that quote by Francis Kong, though I heard that through other means.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Ipokrito ang pilipinas pag-dating sa ganitong bagay, it is a fact that there are increasing numbers of battered wife, a single mother, abusive husband, with all these happening the church still call it the “Sanctity of marriage” WTF???
kung babae ka at mala-impierno ang buhay mo at ang buhay ng anak mo sa asawa mo? ano ang gagawin mo? makikisama pa rin hanggang sa mamatay ka na?
kung ang italy na malapit na sa rome ay open sila sa ganitong bagay, kung ang mga bansang nag-tatag ng Catholicism ay open sa ganitong bagay, eh ito pa kayang bulok na pilipinas na puro mag-nanakaw, ipokrito at kung ano-anong tao ang makikita mo.
if you will looked closely, the Philippine church is one of the reason kung bakit hanggang ngayon ay nag-hihirap ang pilipinas.