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Attitudes toward Marriage in the PH
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My male friends ages 37, 33, and 40 never got married in the US. They all got married within 1 year when they moved to the Philippines. Do Filipinos value marriage more than Americans?
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These are some facts about the Philippines in terms of marriage. Aside from Vatican City, the Philippines is the only and remaining country in the world where divorce is still illegal.Filipinos are family-centered (unlike Americans who are self-centered). Every member of the clan, neighbors, and friends is considered part of the family. In the Philippines, it is not allowed for their child to marry the child of their friend, although not forbidden, in the eye of the other Filipinos, if they got married, it is bad because they are considered part of the family.Because Filipino are family-centered, they believe that their children should grow up that the family is complete. So divorce is unlikely to happen.Filipino are religious. According to the bible, humans cannot be separated from what is united by God (marriage couple). So Filipino follow it.Filipino is careful and loveful so the married couple always takes care of one another.
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There is a popular saying that I was raised in. “Work hard, go to college, marry a beautiful woman, and get a job, so that you will be the ones to take care of us when we get old”. A very selfish phrase that I am relieved to know that I am not alone. You’ll notice that a lot from younger generations have either failed marriages or unmarried in their late 30s. That is also the case in the Philippines, many Filipinos who are also born from the mid-late 80s until mid-90s are unmarried—especially from the urban areas—because “not interested” and personally I see this as a good thing. Don’t marry for the sake of marrying or because society has pressured you. Marry for love and commitment. In the rural areas, then yes, marriage is more valued than financial responsibility. In this country, I don’t want to get married until divorce is once and for all, legalized.