A Presentation of my interview with Mr. Tim Laws of ALFI. The answers are just my recalls, any change of words are not intended.

1. A Special Project
In
Values Education 14
Contemporary Family Life
Jashmine F. Sevelleno
II-7 BSE Values Education
Prof. Nonita Marte

2. One on one interview with Mr.
Tim Laws
Chairman of Alliance for the Filipino
Family Foundation, Inc.
One on one interview with Mr.
Tim Laws
Chairman of Alliance for the Filipino
Family Foundation, Inc.

3. The answers here
are just my
recalls base with
my interview
with Mr. Tim
Laws. Words
have been
changed for
project purposes.

5. Q: How important it
is to have a family
solidarity within our
society?
A: It is important
because it will affect
everyone of us
especially the
children. It will affect
also the progress of
the Philippines.

6. Q: How many percent of
Filipino families do you
think is still giving an
importance of having a
family solidarity?
A: It’s not really gone
because many Filipinos
still give importance to it.
But the problem is it
fades.
So it’s still within them
but fading.

7. Q: What do you think
is the reason why
most of the Filipinos
support in passing
bills like RH Bill
and Divorce Bill?
A: Modernization is
one reason. They
think that it is
popular on other
countries that is
why they also want
it to be
implemented here in
the Philippines.

8. Q: How important it is
to have a broad
understanding about
these proposed bills that
might affect family
values of Filipinos?
A: It is very important because
these bills has a big consequences
if it is implemented here. As you
see, within the 20 years of the
introduction of contraception in
the U.S., the divorce rate reached
nearly 250% of what it had been
at that time. So it will likely to
happen here if the government
implemented it .

9. Q: Many organizations
used protests as a means of
expressing their advocacy,
in your opinion how
effective it is in giving
information to the
Filipinos?
A: We also join rallies
but it’s not that really
effective you know
because people think that
we advocate the same
things so no one really
don’t want to listen to
those things, that’s why
its not really that
effective.

10. Q: Aside from
newsletters and T.V
shows, what other
programs or
activities you’ve been
planning to execute
in order to have a
widespread
information for
Filipinos
Q: Aside from
newsletters and T.V
shows, what other
programs or
activities you’ve been
planning to execute
in order to have a
widespread
information for
Filipinos
A: We’ve also
been doing
symposiums
and talks to
different
university or
schools.

11. Q: one of your mission is
to influence our
legislators in giving
decisions to the proposed
bills, how influential do
you think these kind of
group or alliance is?
A: Maybe fairly
influential. We
can somehow
affect the
legislators
decisions but just
a little.

12. Q: Being a chairman
of ALFI, what do you
think is the key in
restoring the values or
culture of having a
family solidarity?
A: That’s a hard one.
But I think we just need
to give Importance to
what we think is right
and what will be the
cause of these bills to
everyone of us.

13. Q: If you will given a
chance to implement
a law, what will be
the focus of that law?
A: Well it
will be a law
that is
anchored
with the
natural

14. Q: What help do you think
does a future Values
Educator can do in order to
have a widespread
information about the
importance of family
solidarity in our society?
A: Just teach the
children the
importance of family
and life, and explain
the concept of
morality in order to
have a better
understanding of
what will be the effect
of these bills.