Atty. Kapunan to Senator Padilla: Husband and wife are obliged to mutually respect each other
Ipinaliwanag ni Atty. Lorna Kapunan sa pagdinig ng Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media kay Senator Robin Padilla ang revised Family Code, kung saan isinasaad na "husband and wife are obliged to mutually respect each other."
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00:00Atorney, there's no violence. He's not drunk.
00:02Out of, I don't know, of urge.
00:05Because, you know,
00:06uh,
00:07maybe it's because the people of the country don't like me
00:11when I say that men really have different urges.
00:14There's really an urge.
00:17So,
00:18how is that?
00:19Your wife is there to serve you.
00:21She doesn't want that.
00:23So, what can I do
00:25so that my wife won't complain about me?
00:28What can I say to her?
00:31Mahal, or babe, or whatever.
00:33Please help me in a way.
00:34Counseling.
00:36Counseling is needed.
00:40Or, just pray.
00:42But, I'll just correct the statement.
00:45Because the urge,
00:46the urge is only 30 minutes.
00:48You'll go crazy.
00:49Watch Netflix.
00:51Korean telenovela.
00:52All I'm saying is,
00:53So, legally, there's nothing?
00:54There's nothing.
00:55For example, tell your husband,
00:57That's why it's important,
01:00the issue of mutual respect.
01:02If your spouse
01:05refuses,
01:07whether valid or not,
01:09let's respect the decision
01:11of the wife,
01:12or the husband, in that case.
01:15The other thing is the statement of the chair.
01:18With all due respect,
01:19it's not an obligation
01:23of a wife,
01:25You said, it's to serve the husband.
01:27That's normal, right?
01:29I know.
01:30That's what was instilled in us.
01:33In fact, I'll just add,
01:35because there are a lot of men here listening.
01:37In our family code,
01:39this is a different code.
01:41In the family code,
01:42we amended the family code
01:45to remove the obligation of obedience.
01:49Now,
01:51in the old civil code,
01:54the old civil code is also from the 1930s,
01:57it says,
01:58The wife shall obey the husband.
02:03Now, there's no more obey-obey of the husband.
02:06It's been changed.
02:07Yes.
02:08We should know that.
02:10When was that revised?
02:12The family code? 1988.
02:14In 1988, the family code was revised
02:18which states that
02:20the wife
02:22no longer needs to obey.
02:24The obligation of obedience is no longer removed.
02:26It states that
02:28husband and wife are obliged
02:30to mutually respect each other.