The all – male group of Violence Against Women advocates of DSWD Field Office Eight will make Positive Disciplining on children as one of the additional subjects for its advocacies. Said Federico Pagayanan, president of the Men Opposed to Violence Against Women Everywhere (MOVE) DSWD Field Office Eight chapter, assuch is in support to one of the thrusts of the Department.

LolitDadap, head of the Social Technology Unit, stated in her discussion during the recently – concluded Gender Sensitivity Development Training, that most of the perpetrators of domestic violence were once victims of abuse and exploitation themselves. She told the MOVE members attending the two – day activity, that in their childhood, they have experienced being punished within their own homes for some offenses.

“The experiences of childhood must be positive, so that what will be implanted in their minds will be positive, as well,” she pointed out.“Corporal Punishment involves use of force, power, authority or intimidation to inflict some pain or discomfort for the purpose of training,” Dadap stated in her lecture. On the other hand, she described positive disciplining as a way of teaching the children by demonstrating model good behavior.

Further, the Unit Head told them that discipline is part of child rearing, and is not limited to situations when there is mistake or offense. “Their first home is school,” she said.

DSWD Regional Director, Leticia Diokno, meanwhile, explained thatMOVE members are men coming from different organizations, including the government and private sectors, as well as the academe and non-government organizations.

She encouraged other men to form their own MOVE chapter so they can join the bandwagon of caring, pro-active and principled men who are serious at making the Philippines a country free from “violence against women.”

Diokno bared that the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCFRW) made the move for the MOVE to come into being. The MOVE Philippines started in year 2006, and is now officially registered with the Secuirty and Exchange Commission (SEC).