Everyone seems to be bitching on about their poorer families, as if it is a peculiar problem to the phillipines and it's emigrants who have left. It isn't. I saw exactly the same sort of thing happen when my parents left Italy, in the 60s and did well in the UK.
I think it is in the nature of humanity that when a member of any extended family leaves a country amidst poverty to do better to a far away place that those left behind will expecting support in some ways. Regardless of the fact that the richer country they go to, might leave them economically not that much better off in reality. Peoples perceptions are easily skewed. Also factually, the average filipino is a lot poorer than the average westerner.
How you deal with it, is your own prerogative, though I find it a bit unsettling that the general tone of the posts is that filipino's are feckless, disorganised, lazy, useless etc. I m sure you can say the same about individuals in any country but I think it is a bit much to label the whole country as such.
I m with the random acts of kindess poster though, tough as it might be, certain regular payments will always be taken as a given and worked into peoples budgets whoever they are.
If I knew for example I was getting £10000 a month in perpetuity, I know the way I worked would change to compensate for the fact, (i.e. less). It's just natural human behaviour, it doesnt matter who is giving and who is receiving really.
