2. A man and a woman
coming together in the bond of love
to start a family.
Realizing marriage as a God ordained
institution gives us the right perspective
on marriage. It is a covenant made
before God.
It is God, our Creator,
who makes the union.
5. Types of Violence Punishable
under this Law
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
- When one person uses/threatens to use physical pain
to intimidate another person
- Slaps, pushes, punching, hair pulling, etc.
People can die from injuries
6. Verbal abuse
When one person uses
words and body language
to criticize another person
Put downs, name calling
Not easily recognized as
abuse, can go on for
extended periods causing
damage to victim’s self-
esteem
7. PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE-
acts or omissions causing or
likely to cause mental or
emotional suffering, including:
- Stalking
- Ridicule
- Repeated verbal abuse
- Depriving the woman of access
to her family
- Marital infidelity
10. Types of Violence Punishable
under this Law
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- Forcing a woman to watch obscene
movies
- Forcing the woman to engage in any
sexual act
- Unwanted sexual contact
- Molestation, incest, date rape
- Usually coupled with physical abuse
11. Types of Violence Punishable
under this Law
ECONOMIC ABUSE acts that make or
attempt to make a woman financially
dependent, including:
- withdrawal of financial support; preventing
her from engaging in a legitimate
profession, business or activity
- deprivation or threat of deprivation of
financial resources and the right to use
12. Definition: Violence Against Women
& their children (VAWC)
any act or series of acts committed by any PERSON
(male or female)
against a WOMAN who is his wife, former wife, or with
whom the person has or had a sexual or dating
relationships, or
with whom he has a common child,
or against her child
within or outside the residence
which result or likely to result in physical, sexual,
psychological harm or suffering or economic abuse
including threats of such acts,
battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary
deprivation of liberty
13. “Any act of gender-based violence that
results in or is likely to result in physical,
sexual, or psychological harm or suffering
to women, including threats of such acts,
coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty,
whether occurring in public or private life."
United Nation’s General Assembly
definition, 1993
14. Effects of Family Violence on Women’s
Lives
- Life with a violent partner can have
physical, social, emotional and
psychological effects on women, in both
the short and long term.
– This results in lower self-esteem, loss
of confidence in themselves and others,
isolation, depression, and suicidal
tendencies.
15. Family Violence and its Impact on
Children
- Women who are victims of violence and
who suffer effects on their health and
physical, mental and emotional condition will
have more difficulty giving their children the
appropriate attention, affection and care.
- Witnessing violence leaves children very
scared, distressed and anxious about their
own safety and that of their mother and
siblings.
17. Sec. 5 Acts of VAWC
- Causing, threatening, attempting to
cause physical harm to woman or her child
- Placing the woman or her child in fear of
imminent physical harm
- Attempting or compelling the women or her
child to engage in conduct which they have a
right to desist from, or to
- desist from conduct which they have a
right to engage in
18. Sec. 5 Acts
- attempting to restrict or restricting
the woman or her child’s freedom of
movement or conduct by force or
threat of force, physical or other
harm or threat of physical or other
harm,
- intimidation directed against the
woman or her child
19. Sec. 5 Acts
- Acts committed
with the purpose or effect
of controlling or restricting the woman’s or
her child’s movement by:
(1) depriving or threatening to deprive
the woman or her child or custody or
access to her family
(2) depriving them of financial
support; insufficient financial support
20. Sec. 5 Acts
(3) Depriving or threatening to deprive
the woman or her child of a legal right
(4) Preventing the woman from
engaging in any legitimate profession,
occupation, business or activity, or
controlling the victim’s own money or
properties or solely controlling conjugal or
common money or properties
21. Sec. 5 Acts
- Inflicting or threatening to inflict physical
harm on oneself for the purpose of
controlling her actions or decisions
- Causing or attempting to cause the
woman or her child to engage in any
sexual activity which does not constitute
rape, by force or threat, physical harm,
intimidation directed against the woman,
her child, or immediate family *
22. Sec. 5 Acts
Engaging in knowing or reckless conduct, personally
or through another, that alarms or causes substantial
emotional or psychological distress to the woman or
her child, including:
(1) stalking
(2) peering in window; lingering outside the residence
(3) entering or remaining in the house or
on the property of the woman or her child
(4) destroying property and personal
belongings or causing harm to animals, pets
(5) engaging in any form of harassment or
violence *
23. Sec. 5 Acts
-Causing mental or emotional anguish,
public ridicule, humiliation including repeated
verbal and emotional abuse
-denial of financial support or custody of
minor children or denial of access to the
woman’s child
* PRESCRIPTION PERIOD: 10 years. All
others, 20 years
24. Venue
CRIMINAL ACTION:
- Family Court or if none,
- In the Regional Trial Court where the crime
or any of its elements was
committed,
- at the option of the complainant.
PROTECTION ORDER : Family Court in the
residence of petitioner, if none, in the RTC,
MTC, MCTC
25. Protection Orders
PROTECTION ORDER ・to prevent further
acts of violence against a woman or her
child.
To safeguard the victim from further
harm, minimizing disruption in victim’s
dailynlife, and give her the opportunity and
ability to regain control over her life.
KINDS OF P.O.
・Barangay Protection Order
- - Temporary Protection Order
- Permanent Protection Order
26. Protection Orders
- PROTECTION ORDER - to prevent further
acts of violence against a woman or her
child.
- To safeguard the victim from further
harm, minimizing disruption in victim’s daily
life, and give her the opportunity and ability
to regain control over her life.
KINDS OF P.O.
- Barangay Protection Order
-Temporary Protection Order
- Permanent Protection Order
27. Protection Orders
- Prohibition from threatening or committing,
personally or through another, any of acts in Sec. 5
- Prohibition from harassing, telephoning,
contracting the petitioner
- Removal and exclusion from the residence
regardless of ownership, temporarily or
permanently where no property rights are violated
- Stay away from petitioner, any designated family
or household member, from residence, school,
workplace, or specified place
28. Protection Orders
- Directing law enforcer to accompany petitioner
to the residence, ensure possession of
automobile and other personal effects; supervise
respondent’s removal of belongings
- Temporary or permanent custody of child
- Support: automatic remittance of salary or
income by employer
- Directing DSWD or appropriate agency to
provide shelter and social services
29. Who may file for Protection
Orders (P.O.)
- Offended party
- Parents or guardians
- Ascendants, descendants, collateral relatives
within 4th degree of consanguinity or affinity
- Social workers of DSWD or LGUs
- Police officers
- Punong Barangay or kagawad
- Lawyer, counselor, therapist, healthcare provider
- At least 2 citizens of the city or municipality who
have personal knowledge of the offense
30. Battered Woman Syndrome
(BWS)
- scientifically defined pattern of
psychological and behavioral symptoms found
in women living in battering relationships as a
result of cumulative abuse.
A defense; justifying circumstance;
A victim with BWS is not disqualified from
having custody of her children
Perpetrator of woman with BWS shall not have
custody
31. SPOUSE ABUSE – is maltreatment
in the context of an intimate
relationship
- husband and wife
- live in partner
-boyfriend and girlfriend
- same sex relationship
32. CYCLE of SPOUSE ABUSE
1) Tension building phase –(onset and
beginning of minor arguments, stony
silence and repetitive complains of the
husband / minor form of battering)
33. 2) Acute battering incident –
intense violence of physical
injury, verbal demoralization
and threatening of the partner/
involves more serious form of
battering
34. 3) Honeymoon stage-
husband expressing
remorse and promises that
the battering incident will no
longer happen, becomes
loving
35. Warning signs of relationship violence:
V iew you as unequal
I nvade your personal space
O ver jealousy
L ack of empathy
E motionally abuses you (insults, belittling,
name-calling)
N egatively talks about women in general
C annot express emotional and sexual
frustrations (without becoming angry)
E xtreme use of drugs or alcohol
36. Characteristics of abusive husbands:
-low self-esteem (they think they’re not
good enough)
-has strong feeling of inadequacy
-very controlling
-possessive (think that his wife is his
possession)
-abused drugs and alcohol
-narcissistic
-irrational jealousy
-usually come from violent families
37. Divorce (or the dissolution of marriage) is the
termination of a marital union, the canceling and/or
reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of
marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony
between a married couple under the rule of law of the
particular country and/or state.
38. We have the tendency to
hurt the ones we love.
And this is because of
carelessness,
selfishness and
insensitivity
40. If you hurt your spouse,
you automatically hurt
yourself. Ephesians 5:28.
41. Ephesians 5:28
28 In this same
way, husbands
ought to love their
wives as their
own bodies. He
who loves his wife
loves himself.
42. Loving your spouse begins with
deciding that you love that person
as much as you love yourself.
Successful marriages are not
something that comes
automatically.
A happy life together is something
you make happen.
44. Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink
your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that
God favors what you do. 8 Always be clothed
in white, and always anoint your head with oil. 9
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the
days of this meaningless life that God has given
you under the sun—all your meaningless days.
For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome
labor under the sun.
