BSED IV- Social Studies

Marriage and Family

(REED3)

1. Difference betwee legal separation and annulmet.

- Legal separation is not a divorce. It ends the marital obligations and the
property relations between the spouses, but the marriage bond is not
dissolved. This means that legally separated spouses still cannot marry
someone else. Annulment or declaration of nullity of marriage, however,
dissolve the marriage bond completely. The effect of annulment or declaration
of nullity is that the marriage no longer exists. This allows the former spouses
to marry someone else. This is not true of legal separation.
2. How does media affect the Filipino family? How does family system works
in the Phil.?
- The Filipino family and contends that interpersonal relationships among family
members in the past have been displaced by the mass media. The effects of
mass media on the Filipino family: the generation gap between parents and
children has widened, one reason being the differences in exposure media;
the media reduce family interaction and interpersonal communication to a
minimum, and the media hamper the growth of community spirit

- Households in the Philippines are commonly made up of extended family

members, which may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews, and
nieces. Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and men and women in
general, are typically filled with dignity, protectiveness, and respect.
3. What are the grounds for legal separation?
- The grounds for legal separation may have arisen after the marriage, and
may be filed on the following grounds: (1)  repeated physical violence or
grossly abusive conduct directed against the petitioner, a common child, or a
child of the petitioner; (2)  physical violence or moral pressure to compel the
petitioner to change religious or political affiliation; (3)  attempt of respondent
to corrupt or induce the petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner,
to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such corruption or inducement;
(4)  final judgment sentencing the respondent to imprisonment of more than 6
years, even if pardoned; (5)  drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the
respondent; (6)  lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;
(7)  contracting by the respondent of a subsequent bigamous marriage,
whether in the Philippines or abroad; (8)  sexual infidelity or perversion;
(9)  attempt by the respondent against the life of the petitioner; or
(10)  abandonment of petitioner by respondent without justifiable cause for
more than 1 year.