Single or unmarried persons with dependents may enjoy some of the benefits given to a single parent under the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act, if a bill filed at the House of Representatives is enacted. | GabrielLaluINQ
“The typical Filipino family is, by its nature, extended and closely-knit. It is not unusual in a number of Filipino families that the children who have already graduated from college and begun working, or even those who stopped attending school to find work due to poverty, would eventually become the breadwinners of the family,” she said in the bill’s explanatory note.
According to the lawmaker, her bill would strengthen and develop the Filipino family — which is a goal of the 1987 Constitution.
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