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...Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that...
...constant threat of arrest takes its toll on the children. Parents report nightmares, bed-wetting and clinginess. "I've been there in that situation they are going through right now. I was illegal and I was afraid whenever I saw men in uniforms," says Jenalyn Zuno, 22, a Filipina granted permanent residency in 2006. (See the top 10 most surprising facts about the world's oldest bible...
...Motherless Children How ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers you profile in "The Motherless Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced...
...ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as surrogate mothers. Few children - rich or poor, in whichever country - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced. Juliet Linley, Rome...
Motherless Children How ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers you profile in "The Motherless Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced...