Marrying A Filipina? You Got Money?

[Tukaram (Tim)]

I do know of one case of a Filipina being pimped by her foreign husband.

 

It was thirty years ago. A del Pilar bar girl who rejoiced in the name of Beautiful Body Letty married an Australian, and left for Australia.

 

She was beaten up, raped and made to work as a prostitute in King's Cross.

 

How do I know? Because she turned the tables - she had the guts to go to a TV station and blow the gaff - she named names, and got a very high profile on Oz TV.

 

That's the only case I know of.

As regards Berger, I have been told that Garcia was insistent on his arrest in the first place; she has certainly been involved in the hounding of the equally innocent couple who are about to be aquitted.

 

And if that happened in the PI's she would hardly get any notice - but over there, or the US, she can get help. 

 

Silly law - not thought out well at all.

[Papa Carl]

An absurd law that will hurt more Filipinas and their family than will ever hurt their potential "Foreigner" husbands!

 

You only need to walk around any "shanty town" or "bar area" in any city in the Philippines, or talk to any of the girls working in any of the "girlie bars" to find out how many are single mums, and that in the vast, vast, vast majority of the cases, the father is a Filipino not a Foreigner!

 

How many convictions are there in the Philippines, of Filipinos having a "second" or "third" family with children?

 

Not many compared to the number of Filipinos who have "multiple families" and yet still married to his first wife! (which by law is illegal and comes with a hefty penalty by Filipino standards)

 

 

Papa Carl

[Methersgate]

An absurd law that will hurt more Filipinas and their family than will ever hurt their potential "Foreigner" husbands!

 

You only need to walk around any "shanty town" or "bar area" in any city in the Philippines, or talk to any of the girls working in any of the "girlie bars" to find out how many are single mums, and that in the vast, vast, vast majority of the cases, the father is a Filipino not a Foreigner!

 

How many convictions are there in the Philippines, of Filipinos having a "second" or "third" family with children?

 

Not many compared to the number of Filipinos who have "multiple families" and yet still married to his first wife! (which by law is illegal and comes with a hefty penalty by Filipino standards)

 

 

Papa Carl

 

That's absolutely right. 

 

Here are some numbers:

 There were 195,662 teenage pregnancies in the Philippines in 2009, according to the United Nations Population Fund. (For comparison, there were 38,259 in the UK., but the age profile of the UK is rather different, so a direct comparison is unfair). 

 

At 53 births per 1,000 teenage girls, this is the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in ASEAN; put another way, one teenage Filipina in twenty is a mother – very often a single mother.

The risk of getting pregnant does not stop when a girl turns twenty, of course.

 

In a conservative Catholic culture, the young single mother is a “fallen woman”. 

A single mother is not attractive as a marriage prospect; a young man will be discouraged by his family from marying a single mother. Employment is likewise hard to come by - there are no creches, and nobody wants a domestic servant with a baby, so the young single mother can either dump her child on her own mother - often already in poverty - or try to take care of the child herself, in which case she is left with with only two ways to support herself and her child – to become the mistress of a man who can support her and her child (unlikely) or to work as a "GRO" or a dancer in a bar, which at least allows her to spend some daylight hours with her child.

This is a side effect of the lack of sex education in schools and of the relative unavailability of contraception. 

The illegality of abortion adds something to the pregnancy rate, although the rate of illegal abortions is also shockingly high, with estimates of the number of abortions in 2005, made by the University of the Philippines, at between 400,000 and 500,000 cases. (For comparison, there were 189,100 legal abortions in the UK in 2010.) 

 

So the Philippines, a conservative Catholic society, has roughly five times number of teenage pregnancies that occur in Britain, and double the UK's abortion rate. The Law of Unintended Consequences is operating, to produce effects that are, no doubt, very far from those that the Catholic Church intends.

 

Only a microscopic proportion of the "run away" baby fathers are foreigners.

Edited August 22, 2014 by Methersgate

[Thomas]

Employment is likewise hard to come by - there are no creches, and nobody wants a domestic servant with a baby, so the young single mother can either dump her child on her own mother - often already in poverty - or try to take care of the child herself, in which case she is left with with only two ways to support herself and her child – to become the mistress of a man who can support her and her child (unlikely) or to work as a "GRO" or a dancer in a bar, which at least allows her to spend some daylight hours with her child.

Well. Yes, IF they have to move to get work,

but if they manage to get work close enough to still live together with parents/sibblings, then they can meet their child not much different from single parents in our home countries with kids in daycare...

Examples I know:

/Working EVENINGS in gas station. Both parents and all sibblings work full time. I suppouse they solve child caretaking by working different hours.  (Btw one of the brothers is SINGLE FATHER to two kids, after his wife left him switching to some rich guy and moved to Thailand.)

/Working in grosery shop. The child have reached school age, so she wouldn't see it most of the day anyway,

/Serving in restaurant. She kicked out the father of the child, because he is drunk much.

/An other kicked out the boyfriend too. She was employed in tailor shop, but don't like to have boss  :)  so she quit the employment and have started own business where she produce an own product AT HOME, so she can look after her small child at same time as she work (except when she deliver to shops.)

This is a side effect of the lack of sex education in schools and of the relative unavailability of contraception.

Sure.

I hope the problem will be reduced much by the new law, which the church tried hard to stop...

[sonjack2847]

I wonder how much they say you will need to take care of a family here. Will it be the minimum wage? If they say more than that maybe the workers will kick up a fuss and demand a bigger salary!

[Jack Peterson]

Silly law - not thought out well at all.

 

 

:no:  Are any, of the Laws ever Thought out? never mind, Thought out well.. But Hey Ho, next one please! :1 (103):

[FlyAway]

Philippines has an entire branch of government set up to export its people to work. So why not set up another to take care of another natural resource?

[Old55]

Perhaps this is part of a larger plan.

Remember last year a law was in work that would require children to support older parents? Who better than a "rich Kano"?

[Tukaram (Tim)]

Perhaps this is part of a larger plan.

Remember last year a law was in work that would require children to support older parents? Who better than a "rich Kano"?

 

I thought the family law already provided for that?

[Thomas]

 

Perhaps this is part of a larger plan.

Remember last year a law was in work that would require children to support older parents? Who better than a "rich Kano"?

 

I thought the family law already provided for that?

Yes it is.

 

 

>Old55  Then it would be better to make it EASIER not harder to marry a Filipina...  Better a "half rich kano" (in their messure) than no one...  :mocking: