Comments on: Tracking the Solo Flight of Solo Parents

By: HOPE

HOPE — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:18:47 +0000

Im also a single mom…on my first glance of the law i was a bit disappointed cz im looking on the section on which my status fit in…but failed to find a section about solo parent who preferred to be unmarried for the reason of being abused and find their partner unloyal to her…For me this law doesnst encourage the public or the marriage is being neglected or rejected, its a case to case basis…its better to choose raising my baby alone than having with me my partner and marry him and suffer the rest of my life and put my work at risk…HOPE SO YOU UNDERSTAND MY AGONY SIR….

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:03:22 +0000

hi atty, I am browsing the web looking for a sample/ guide to do the “affidavit of circumstances of being solo parent” for my solo parent card. Can a notary public do this for me?

By: my

my — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:47:05 +0000

at least i wud have time to attend meetings and activities in my kids skul.u see it means a lot to our kids to know that mom would be there to watch skul plays or attend programs…it makes a lot of difference…its hard to balance everything, or i guess do everything at the same time as a solo parent…it wud be a big help..

By: aidmad

aidmad — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:02:31 +0000

R.A. 8972 otherwise known as Solo Parent’s Welfare Act is a law promoting family as the foundation of the nation. Here, the law encourages the government to help the disadvantaged solo parents by providing benefits and privileges under the comprehensive programs developed by other national government, dswd will act in assessment. In quezon city, sad to say ever since the guidelines of R.A. 8972 came out april 2002, the council has only passed an ordinance directing all barangay officials to conduct mass registration of solo parents. Unfortunately, since this ordinance was released last 2007, few barangays are implementing the ordinance. What a waste……

By: single parenting

single parenting — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:01:06 +0000

Single parents like me should be given more benefits under the solo parent law. Although the law states that we have an additional 7 days of leave I was unable to get this benefit not all companies knows that there is such a law.

By: dhanarajesh1

dhanarajesh1 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:06:16 +0000

by divorce only parents have to suffer.. please dont divorce

By: 031674

031674 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:02:15 +0000

The law encourages single parents??? You mean just because solo parents are given 7 more days of vacation leave per year, they will opt to be a solo parent???? The law really doesnt give that much incentive to opt a solo-parent act! That analogy is way far off the point! the law doesnt even give room for solo parents to sigh, much more for couples to choose being a single parent “since im protected by the solo parent act” duh???

By: Ditas

Ditas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:56:16 +0000

I am a single parent for 16 years now and sad to notice that of the ten categories of solo parent, my case is not there. Do I have a right to correct my status where I feel so disadvantaged under the law ? I lived with my husband who is a gambler, drunkard and over jealous which resulted in physical and mental abuses. For the four years we’ve been together, not a week will pass without these abuses. When I realized I am in danger of being added to statics of crime of passion, I run away, my children then were already with my parents. I run away for my life and for my sanity and I had no time nor capacity to get a physician to certify my husband’s mental health. I’ve been busy working to support my children. I did not ask for child support such that my whereabouts will not be known. 14 years have passed, with my meager savings I filed for annulment in 2006. Almost two years now 2008, without money, without work, my case is still undecided in court. Psychological incapacity is hard to prove when the other party is not willing to undergo with the test. Telephone interview seemed not acceptable. Are there any avenue that I can move on? I find annulment usually works only if one have enough money to spend. What if one is hurting and has no money? Is this law just a privilege and not a right?

By: kuma

kuma — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:23:28 +0000

true though, it’s the lawyers who benefit from all those marriages and divorces and perhaps wedding companies too. I doubt if you should base the whole society on the tradition mode of family, like two parents and two kids. Now the usual is single parent and kids with steps siblings etc, and that’s the reality we need to face. Solor parents do have the need to get special treatment and allowances at times for the benefit of their child, them going solo means parenting is harder. I don’t see how we cannot understand or how we should be jealous of them. Just for the child.

By: URIEL

URIEL — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:38:53 +0000

…speaking of marriage,may abogado notaryo publiko dito sa lugar namin na kapalmuks talaga—-”NOTARY PUBLIC:NAGKAKASAL authorized to solemnized marriage”…..nakalagay pa sa glass wall ng kanyang opisina at may karatula pa sa daanan.much worst,ang office nya ay napaligiran ng ibang law office at sa harapan pa ng city hall compound na may hall of justice….a lawyer shall only used fair,honest,and truthful information in making known his services.sarap saksakan ng canister ang puwit nito!:}