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...Ending this cycle of emigration won't be easy. Aileen Constantino-Peñas, who works for the NGO Atikha, says part of the problem is that most children of migrant workers "do not have the slightest idea of the difficult situations their parents face." More and more women are leaving to work in private homes as domestic helpers, a job that can mean putting up with long hours and cramped living quarters - and, all too often, abusive employers. But few of the grim details get shared in the regular phone calls parents make home to their kids. Through workshops...
...napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...
...Children with homes to call their own are also struggling. According to a new UNICEF study, Filipino teenagers with one or both parents abroad, though they do better in school and have more allowance money, said they felt they were worse off - particularly when it came to their future - than peers with both parents living at home. Past studies have also shown that children with mothers abroad report feeling less happy than those with fathers abroad. "One parent can a do good job, but that doesn't happen a lot," says Dr. Esperanza A. Icasas-Cabral, the Secretary...
...scholarships and loans. Migrant workers are also required to buy national health insurance, which extends to their families. But as more and more women leave, the government needs to step up its efforts to develop programs that specifically address the needs of workers' kids, says UNICEF. "We want children and families to be involved in every stage of the [migration] process," says Mary Grace Agcaoili, a social-policy specialist with UNICEF in Manila...
...biracial woman who is excited about Barack Obama and all of the accomplishments his presidency symbolizes, I can't help but slightly resent just how much focus goes onto his race. I'll teach my children that Obama in the White House was an enormous triumph for acceptance, but I hope that they, like me, will be unable to see why America imposes the racial divides that force us to choose. Jennifer Outler, Cambria Heights, New York...