FILE PHOTO. A mom feeds her youngster on the Walang Gutom (No Starvation) Kitchen in Pasay Metropolis on Sunday (Jan. 12, 2025). | PNA picture by Joan Bondoc
MANILA – The Home of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations is assessing the funding wanted to ascertain a Division of Social Welfare and Improvement (DSWD) workplace to supervise the implementation of Home Invoice (HB) 8987 or Act Making certain Baby Assist and Penalizing Parental Refusal or Neglect Thereof.
The Committee on Welfare of Kids has accepted the invoice that proposes a penalty of as much as six years of imprisonment for deadbeat fathers.
It was agreed in the course of the hearings that the monetary assist fathers should present will depend upon the kid’s wants.
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The legislation will mandate the DSWD, in collaboration with the Nationwide Financial and Improvement Authority, to find out the quantity of kid assist.
“Kailangang kailangan na natin itong batas na ito. Kailangang maparusahan ang mga tatay na ayaw bigyan ng suporta ang kanilang mga anak lalo na kapag iniwan na niya ang kanyang pamilya (We actually want this sort of proposed legislation. Fathers who refuse to assist their youngsters should be punished, particularly those that deserted his household),” Home Deputy Majority Chief and ACT-CIS Social gathering-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo, one of many invoice’s authors, stated in a information launch Sunday.
“Nagpapasalamat tayo sa ating mga kasamahan sa Kongreso sa pag-usad nitong panukalang batas pero sana ay mas madaliin pa ito para tuluyan nang mapanagot ang mga walang pusong ama na tinalikuran ang kanilang mga sariling anak (We thank our colleagues in Congress for pushing this proposed measure however we hope for extra stress to it to lastly maintain these heartless fathers who deserted their youngsters),” Tulfo stated.
The invoice stated moms elevating their youngsters alone, numbering round 15 million, will not should beg or plead with their ex-partners or the fathers of their youngsters for monetary assist.
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