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The Family

This document discusses several topics related to families and children under Philippine law and culture. It covers the importance of family as the fundamental unit of society, parental rights and responsibilities, children's duties to parents, and issues like child labor and exploitation. Key points include that family is derived from natural law, parents have a duty to support and educate their children, children must obey and respect their parents, and the state has a role in protecting children's welfare.

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The Family

This document discusses several topics related to families and children under Philippine law and culture. It covers the importance of family as the fundamental unit of society, parental rights and responsibilities, children's duties to parents, and issues like child labor and exploitation. Key points include that family is derived from natural law, parents have a duty to support and educate their children, children must obey and respect their parents, and the state has a role in protecting children's welfare.

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CE Laws, Contracts, Specification and Ethics

The Family
The springs from marriage. Filipinos regard the family as the center of their lives, their primary
support and the source of their moral strength and motivation. It is the first human society.
The family is the first fundamental unit of society made up of father, mother, children, and
relatives.
The Family is derived from natural law.
Spring by conjugal love between husband and wife and sustained by efforts towards its
objectives.
Objective:
promotion of the physical and spiritual welfare of its members

Society in General
"Society is a moral union of men for the purpose of attaining a common end." -Panizo: 172
Kinds of Society:
1. Natural and Positive - society derived from natural law, from the essential need of man as man
is natural society. Society which is derived from a human positive law is called a positive
society.
2. Necessary and Unnecessary - reference to the need of man as man, some societies are
necessary and man cannot do away with them. Others are unnecessary and man has the option to
be a part of it or not.

The Ideal Family


Parents and children are bound to each other, not only by the laws of genetics, but by the law of
love. It is wrong to believe that the family's success in procuring those material needs and
luxuries of life constitutes happiness. The Ideal family must have genuine love between parents
and children.

The Family and the Child


Marriage is not the pleasure of marital sex. The end of nature is not pleasure. But pleasure is an
incentive for spouses to embark on the most difficult task of building a home for the child.
The child is the product of love who must be reared with the tender hands of love. the child
deserved to be loved and be taught how to love.
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The greatest tragedy in this world is the failure to provide a family, a shelter of love, for the
child.

The Education of the Child


It is the primary responsibility of the parents. The parents have to care for the child, not only that
he may survive physically, but that he may find a place for him in the community of persons.
Each child has the right to a fruitful and happy life in accordance with his human dignity.
Society or the state has a complimentary duty to assist the family in the education of the child.
The state may not compel parents to have their child be educated in the manner against their will
(ibid).

Parental Authority
Parental Authority is natural and essential for the governance of the family. It is natural because
it flows from the responsibility of procreating and educating the offspring. It is essential because
without it the goals of the family would be impossible to attain.
The FAMILY CODE provides that "the father and the mother shall jointly exercise parental
authority over the person of their common children" and that such children shall respect and
submit themselves to this authority (Art. 211). Parents cannot renounce or transfer such parental
authority unless decreed by law (Art. 210). Parental Authority shall include "the caring for and
the rearing (children) for civic consciousness and efficiency and the development of their moral,
mental and physical character and well being (Art. 209).

Emancipation of the Child


Emancipation is the state of independence from parental authority. Emancipation commences at
the age of majority, that is, at the age of 21.
It is attained when:
1. minor enters marriage
2. parents and minor, at least 18 yrs. old, enter into an agreement for such purpose and properly
executed through public instrument with the Civil Registration (Art. 234)

Filial Piety
derived from the latin word "filius" or son, is the love and devotion which children must profess
to their parents
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Filial piety is a natural duty of children. Children are flesh and blood extension of their parents.
They owe parents, not only a debt of gratitude, but a sacred obligation of homage. The
Confucians make filial piety the supreme virtue from which all others are derived.
Hsiao Ching writes:
He who lives his parents does not dare to hate others. He who reverences his parents does
not dare to act contemptuously towards others. By love and reverence being perfectly fulfilled in
the service of his parents, his moral influence is shed upon the people and he becomes pattern for
all the border of nations. This is the filial piety of the Son of Heaven (R.C. Zaehner, The Catholic
Church and World Religions, p. 60).
Respect, loyalty and devotion to parents are positive traits of Filipinos. Neglect of parents,
especially in their sickness or old age, is regarded as an act of supreme ingratitude, a criminal act
deserving of God's punishment.

Rights and Duties of Parents


The Family Code sums up the following rights and duties derived from parental authority (Art.
220):
1. To keep children in their company, to support, educate and instruct them by right precept and
good example, and to provide for their upbriniging in keeping with their means;
2. To give them love and affection, advice and counsel, companionship and understanding;
3. To provide them with moral and spiritual guidance, inculcate in them honesty, integrity, self-
discipline, self-reliance, industry and thrift, stimulate their interest in civic affairs, and inspire in
them in compliance with the duties of citizenship;
4. To enhance, protect, preserve and maintain their physical and mental health at all times.
5. To furnish them with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their activities,
recreation and association with others, to protect them from bad company, and prevent them
from acquiring habits detrimental to their health, studies and morals;
6. To represent them in all matters affecting their interests;
7. To demand from their respect and obedience;
8. To impose discipline on them as may be required under circumstances; and
9. To perform such other duties as are imposed by the law upon parents and gurdians.

Duties of Children
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1. Children must love, revere and obey their parents;


2. They must obey all the lawful command of the parents;
3. They must submit to the parents' authority and decisions;
4. They must honor their parents at all times, must not speak ill or evil of them;
5. They must never harm their parents;
6. They must consult and seek the advice of their parents in their activities;
7. They must help and support their parents in times of need, such as in sickness and weakness of
old age.

The Exploitation of Children


The child is a person. He has a right to his physical and mental health. These human rights of the
child are often violated by the society itself through various forms of indirect exploitation.
Exploitation refers to any act of enticing or inducing a person to act in a manner prejudicial to his
interest. Exploitation is DIRECT when the inducement is intended to "use" a person for one's
evil purpose, such as forcing a child to steal. It is INDIRECT when the inducement is not
intentional, but nonetheless harmful such as TV shows portraying violence.

Child Prostitution
Child prostitution is a lamentable fact in our country. Sexual exploitation and abuse of children
is grossly immoral. Those who procure, entice, seduce, or use children is grossly immoral.
The integrity of the body and soul belongs even to a child who has received them from God and
not from their parents. Neither the parents, nor the child himself, has the right to sell the function
of the human body for sexual gratification even if the anticipated profit and advantage is
enormous.

Child Labor
The child labor is a source of joy. But the cry of pain and anguish of a child penetrates the heart,
wounding it mortally. We cannot truly be happy while millions of children are hungry and
starving in the streets.
The filipino culture , especially in the agricultural sector, welcomes the idea of children working
in the fields with the parents. Within the bounds of prudence, such work done by children is
praiseworthy. It teaches them the positive value of work and helps them attain self-reliance.
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The State has the duty to look after the welfare of the citizens, including that children abandoned
by their parents. The way we treat our children especially "street children", is the true measure of
our civilization.
If children must work, there must be sufficient laws to protect them from abuses and
exploitation.

Prepared by:
Larry S. De la Cruz
Jessie Y. Concepcion
Rey Eusebio
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