The present law does not hold couples that want a divorce together. They just give mutual consent to their other spouse having an affair and frequently keeping separate households, though officially they remain married. Everyone in the Philippines knows that is what usually happens when a marriage gets beyond repair in the couple’s eyes. Making divorce legal in the Philippines is not going to “split” couples up as much as it is going to legalize what so many married couples that want a divorce are already doing - separate homes and lives lived mostly apart. In those situations even children usually know mom and dad don’t live together, but are still married.
I do not say all of that as if “in defense” of divorce, so much as an admission of what actually exists in the Philippines.
I had not known about any of this in the works and am surprised it has gotten this far.