Under the Family Code of the Philippines, “records of marriages... shall be kept and transmitted to the Philippine Civil Registrar through the Department of Foreign Affairs." Credit: Yuri Arcurs ...
How young is too young to get married? Pinoys were shocked after finding out a 10-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl married in a “traditional Maranao wedding” in early January.
was legally married in 1901 to a twenty-year-old Filipino girl, led to the charge at the court-martial at Fort Sheridan to-day that an alleged certified copy of the marriage certificate was spurious.
Sending money to family in the Philippines is embedded in the Filipino culture. Some Filipinos even work overseas for the very reason of sending financial support back home. While it is a generous ...
The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) has expressed alarm over an unlawful and void “marriage” between a 10-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in a supposed ...
Join us this Monday, January 27, from 8 to 10 AM, for an online webinar on the theme "Revisiting Filipino Migration to Japan: Situationer, Challenges, and Prospects", organized by the Department of ...