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PEOPLE vs. Federico A. Bruce

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. FEDERICO A. BRUCE, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 108604-10 | 1997-03-07

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

As the government cheers the sizeable contributions to the national coffers of overseas workers of all kinds through their dollar remittances, it cannot remain oblivious of the dire consequences visited upon the families who are left behind.

Part of the concomitant measures being undertaken to make government initiatives gender-responsive, should be the conducting of a study to determine, not merely the economic, but the social and moral effects of the enforced estrangement between spouses and between parents and their children.

One such deplorable consequence acknowledged by the Department of Social...