Where Divorce Dare Not Speak Its Name

In response to our recent string of posts regarding the "Natural Rate of Divorce", a commenter asked an interesting question: how might an examination of the situation in the Philippines shed some light on the topic? The Philippines, after all, is the only nation in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce continues to be entirely legally verboten. So how do Filipinos route around this, and how has the law affected the country's social and economic fortunes?

We'll start by tackling the la