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...know is what the Philippines will look like when the millions of children these workers are leaving behind grow up. A UNICEF-commissioned study estimates that roughly one in four kids - about 9 million children nationwide - have at least one parent working abroad. More and more, that means a mother living halfway around the world for 10 or 15 years at a time. The government rightly applauds "Overseas Filipino Workers," or OFWs as they are commonly called in the country, as heroes for the sacrifices they make for their families. But while children whose mothers are nurses in Canada...
...notion that being able to feed your family means leaving the Philippines is a message kids are quick to internalize. Kay C Mendoza, who never knew her father and whose mother has been working overseas since she was five, lives in Mabini with her siblings. Her aunt lives nearby and checks in on them daily. She has a typical 13-year-old's concerns about gossip and boyfriends. But Mendoza is also already planning her career overseas. "I'm going to work hard so my mother can come home," Mendoza says...
...once kids become parents themselves, they face the same choice their parents did. When Baby Diaz was in elementary school, her mother and father moved to Italy to work. When she was 18, her four siblings did, too. The family supported her while she stayed in Manila to go to university, but she says the feeling of being deserted has never left her. Now 27, with a good local job as a bank teller, Diaz has to decide whether to join her entire family in Italy, where she'd make more money even as a domestic worker, or stay...
...love issues”) and maybe that was enough. I asked Carl Cannon whether he thought Caleb might have White House dreams. Caleb had been in Cannon’s study group at the IOP, and Cannon said Caleb’s luminous smile had reminded him of Mother Teresa. “Caleb may be a little too normal to want to be president,” Cannon told me. What do you mean by normal? I asked. “Normal,” he said, “in terms of mentally healthy...
...turned out, Dunham's koa (wood) urn arrived on Election Day, Soetoro-Ng wrote in her e-mail. Soetoro-Ng surrounded the urn with pictures of Dunham's late daughter Stanley Ann Dunham (the mother of Soetoro-Ng and the President-elect), Dunham's grandchildren and her great grandchildren - "all of us who benefited so much from her steady voice and hand," Soetoro-Ng wrote...