IN A NUTSHELL: 53 percent of Filipino adults agree to legalization of divorce • 32 percent disagree • legalization of divorce ‘very strong’ among women♦ ♦ ♦More than half of Filipinos agree that divorce should be legalized for “irreconcilably separated couples,” a nationwide Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey taken in the last quarter of 2017 found. “Support for the legalization of divorce used to be split when SWS first surveyed it in 2005: 43 percent agreed, 12 percent were undecided, and 45 percent disagreed, for a neutral net agreement of -2,” the SWS noted. “The question was asked for the second time six years after in 2011 and obtained moderately strong support. When it was asked for the third time three years after in 2014, it went to very strong and stayed at moderately strong up to 2017,” it said. It has a margin of error of ±3% nationwide, ±4% for Luzon, and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao, the SWS said./acADVERTISEMENT

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 09, 2018 10:52 UTC