RAIN OF FIRE

Wife battering
CESAR G. BONILLA

LAOAG CITY -- Studies reveal that children from violent homes are most likely to become runaways, drug addicts or criminals. They tend to become abusive spouses. Many studies have shown that child abuse is a learned behavior. These researches have also revealed that during childhood, parental conflict and violence were linked to serious adult physical crimes such murder, assault, rape and kidnapping. Juvenile delinquency is just a steam off the volcano inside them. ***
Women in middle and upper society are less likely to use shelters or public hospitals or even report cases. They are largely an invisible chunk in the present research. The rich have a way of concealing unmentionable but undeniable incidents of family violence. They create shelter or a cocoon for such abuses.

Domestic violence is a worldwide phenomenon involving millions of women, young or old, rich or poor, as a Filipina, the woman most likely try to work things out taking into heavy consideration cultural factors. As a Filipina wife, she must be an “ideal” wife and mother and must endure violence to keep the family together for as long as the husband continues to support them.

The most possible reason why a battered wife sticks it out with her body already nose-deep into abuse are: a hope that the man will change for the better; can’t stand a broken family; for the children’s sake with no means to support herself; doesn’t want to be blamed by parents, in-laws; husband might take her kids; wife-beating is part of married life; maintain good reputation of man and family; it’s a family affair and no one should meddle; it’s a woman’s job to please her man, and she’s so used to it’s he might miss the beatings.

A woman’s emotional and economic dependence on a man has chained her to the family home. The family being an inviolable institution must be the sanctuary of respect and honor and not to be besmeared and sullied by human violence and sadism.
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As an instructor of political science and Philippine Constitution, I impart the basis foundation of government on criminology students for them to know since public administration is too difficult to decipher without giving recognition to the theories surrounding the existence of all governments.

They should be more equipped with intellectual awareness and maturity to grasp the importance of this subject and not to simply depend on petty opinions so that they will become effective law enforcers.

Even if I deliver the goods or to share everything relative to political science if their minds are not open reciprocating to this most serious topic, it seems that you are just throwing a precious pearl to the swine. It is idiotic if we blame teachers for dismal performance of students.

Some institutions of learning just allow some non-performing and academically deficient students to pass the subject for the main reason that salaries of the employees were simply derived from their tuition.

This is stupidity because our students are there not to seek pleasure of the senses but to gain knowledge through educational excellence. After graduation, the graduates will carry the name of the institution with pride and honor. In our institution, hopefully, the light of wisdom will shine. ***
The single most important constraint against the rapid modernization of the Philippine Air Force is the lack of funds to purchase new aircraft suitable to the needs of the archipelago. This is perhaps the reason behind the slight development of our military power.

There must be a legislation to modernize our armed forces. The Philippines should now ready to invest in air transport facilities and planes not only for transportation but likewise for surveillance, combating terrorism, quick movement of troops, and defense. Tomorrow’s skies demand skills and competence to ensure safety and efficiency made possible by careful selection of recruits, their initial training, and thereafter their continuing upgrading of their skills. ***
Majority of the Filipino people are still mired in poverty. Many are hungry and are without food or clothing, all need housing jobs. The solemn covenant of our legislators is that they have chosen to stand for office and that the people have elected them on the premise that their main preoccupation will be the alleviation of poverty through facilitating new investments to provide more hobs for our people.

There is the sacred responsibility of enacting laws that will prevent tax evasion and that will encourage our businessmen to invest their earning in our own country rather than abroad. We expect our legislators to be the patriots they present themselves to us, for whom money and self-interest are secondary to the common good and the public welfare. They should enact laws that will redound to the good of all and put the people and their constituencies above themselves.