Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
Guess not.. Nor does watching hungry children and visions of them getting ill with no recourse to public health etc...As I said..Its hard for us to understand.. I suppose it makes the mother happy when she sends money that can assure those things we from the west often take for granted for our children.
From personal experience I can tell you that even if the plan is to leave the child or children in the care of a relative while the mother sets up (permanent) home in a country on the other side of the world, it doesn't take long for the mother to start missing her children and wanting them with her...and that's hardly surprising.

A very different situation to an OFW going off for a fixed term contract, knowing that she will be returning at the end of it, and that her sole reason for doing so is to help her kids and the rest of her family.