Chasing Happy by Adelle Chua

“Ending violence also means enabling survivors to begin anew.”   IT’S always easy to comment on certain issues from the outside. Such is the folly of our “maritess” culture – which has been, by the way, in place long before the distinctly Filipino term was coined. For example, if your hear that your friend was getting beaten by her husband, or if an acquaintance was being subjected to verbal and psychological...