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Cpd: 14.1% of Filipinos Still Use Traditional Family Planning

About 14.1 percent of Filipinos still rely on traditional family planning methods such as withdrawal and the calendar method despite the steady rise in modern contraceptive use, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) said Thursday. Mylin Mirasol Quiray, chief of the CPD Information Management and Communications Division, said the share of traditional-method users declined from 16.5 percent in 2022 but remained significant.

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Published at 2026-09-18 by Dimitri Mostrey

Categories : Culture, Health, People

Tags: Health, childbirth, children, family

Time to Address a Serious Learning Crisis

At a Senate hearing last year, the Department of Education (DepEd) reported that enrollment from kindergarten to senior high school for school year 2020-2021 was estimated at 23 million or 83 percent of the 27.7 million enrolled previously. When Senator Nancy Binay asked DepEd Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan if this meant there would be millions more out-of-school youth, the answer was, “Yes, Madam Senator.”

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Published at 2021-04-19 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Education, Health

Tags: COVID-19, children

Flaws Aside, Online Learning Takes Toll on Students' Mental Health

KJ Catequista suffers panic attacks whenever she receives text messages on her mobile phone from teachers of what could well be simple reminders to parents about their children’s missed deadlines. Often, it takes hours for Catequista, a mother of three, to finally open the group chat app with other parents, nervously scrolling down the names of students and silently praying that those of her children are not listed among those lagging behind.

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Published at 2021-04-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Health, People

Tags: COVID-19, children

Philippines Faces ‘learning Crisis’ After Yearlong School Shutdown

Andrix Serrano studies alone inside a Manila slum shack he shares with his street-sweeper grandmother. Like many in his fourth-grade class, he has no internet for his shuttered school’s online lessons. A year after the coronavirus pandemic sent the Philippines into a months-long lockdown, classrooms across the country remain empty and children are still stuck at home.

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Published at 2021-03-16 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Legal, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, Duterte, School, children, students

House OKs Bill Recognizing Foundlings as Natural-born Filipinos

The House of Representatives approved on Monday on final reading the bill seeking to promote the rights of deserted or abandoned children with unknown parents and protecting their status as natural-born citizens of the country.

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Published at 2020-10-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Legal, People, Society

Tags: Nature, Rights, children

Headlines 3 Million Students Still Unenrolled: 'Lost Generation' Must Catch Up

When the Department of Education (DepEd) began the virtual enrollment of millions of students in June, Janet Villamar, 44, braced for a conversation any parent fears. Like millions of others, her family was being buffeted by the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economically devastating lockdown. Her husband, who had been eking out a daily income from selling old bottles to neighbors, was now cloistered at home.

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Published at 2020-09-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Society, Technology

Tags: COVID-19, Education, Kids, Philippines, School, System, children, students

On This Day: Death Came from Sky in Biggest Sea Battle

In March 1942 US General Douglas MacArthur had been changing trains at Terowie, 220km from Adelaide, when he gave his famous impromptu speech about Allied strategy. In it he talked about the relief of the Philippines being a priority, uttering his best known quote: “I shall return”.

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Published at 2019-10-23 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, History

Tags: Australia, Japanese, Leyte, MacArthur, Workers, children, women

From Street Children to Talented Artists: Filipino Youth Paint for Peace

It’s easy to forget the meaning of peace when all you see in the news are calamities, terrorism, and threats of war. We get so used to violence that we brush it off as part of our everyday, not once stepping back and asking ourselves how we can make it better.

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Published at 2018-03-24 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary

Tags: artist, children

'amerasians' in the Philippines Fight for Recognition

When Susie Lopez, 43, was a little girl she would run outside her home in Angeles City, near the U.S. Clark Airbase in the Philippines, every time she heard a plane fly by.
"I would say 'bye bye, Dad' because the only thing I knew about my father was my dad was riding a plane," she recalls.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Society

Tags: Amerasians, children