Win for wife: Eddie Villanueva welcomes SC ruling penalizing abusive husband

By Billy Begas

In celebration of the World Mental Health Day, Deputy Speaker Bro. Eddie Villanueva welcomed the recent Supreme Court (SC) ruling affirming the penalties for abusive, drunkard, philandering and psychologically-abusive husbands.

Villanueva said the decision is a great milestone in preserving Filipino marriages and families.

He said it also empowers Filipino women to protect and defend themselves from psychological torture inflicted by husbands engaging in immoral, extramarital relationships.

“Filipino mothers and wives deserve a better quality of life, a better quality of marriage, and a better quality of men,” said Villanueva, representative of CIBAC party-list.

In the decision penned by now-retired Associate Justice Edgardo Delos Santos, the SC ruled in favor of a wife who testified that she and her children endured her husband’s drinking and womanizing habits for more than two decades.

The husband was sentenced to eight years imprisonment, fined P100,000 and ordered to undergo psychological counseling in accordance with the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children (VAWC) Act (RA 9262) which prohibits “causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman or her child.”

Villanueva said the scientific studies have proven that illicit relationships are damaging to the lifespan development of children and the mental health of the betrayed party.

“This is why Filipino culture, Philippine law, and Biblical wisdom are intolerant against unfaithfulness,” he added. “On World Mental Health Day, may our precious Filipino wives and mothers be all the more inspired to protect their and their children’s psychological wellbeing.”

CIBAC is also pushing for the passage of the proposed Anti-Marital Infidelity Act (HB 577) to amend the Revised Penal Code’s provisions on marital infidelity and eliminate “a long-observed double-standard that renders the male spouse less vulnerable to conviction.”

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