Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The bond between a mother and her child is as close as it gets yet every year thousands of women from the Philippines leave their young ones behind to play mother to a stranger's child in the United States.
This growing band of what's known as Overseas Filipino Workers or OFW's supports millions of families -- and the national economy -- through the money they send home.
Today, around nine million Filipino children are growing up without a parent, with many never seeing their mom or dad for years.
Staff writer Rachel Aviv looked into the emotional cost of Filipina women in New York providing care in her latest piece for New Yorker magazine.