Fatherless Kopino Children Are A Growing Problem in the Philippines

Over at Korea Expose they have an article posted about the growing problem of South Korean men fathering children in the Philippines and leaving the mothers by going back to Korea:

Kristi, 23, met a South Korean man in the city of Makati, Philippines, through a blind date. “It was love at first sight. We were dating for a few months. Soon enough, I found out he was already married with kids. It broke my world so I decided to end it there.”

But things didn’t work out for Kristi: Shortly after their break-up, she realized she was pregnant. “He told me ‘Don’t worry I’m here for you, I won’t leave you,’ but one month before giving birth, he just disappeared.”

It’s a recurring theme: South Korean men go to the Philippines, have relationships of varying degrees of commitment with local women, father children, and then at one point or another flee back to South Korea severing all ties and leaving the mothers alone with the children.

Kristi is one of many thousands of Filipino women who are left to rear their children alone because of absent South Korean fathers. A number often floated around by organizations and media is 30,000, but there has yet to be a clear count or study on the issue.

Kopino — a portmanteau of Korean and Filipino — is a term said to have first been createdin 2004 to refer to a child born to a Filipino mother and a South Korean father — who has often run away.

Kopino children face a number of difficulties in terms of child support, acquisition of nationality and visa issuance. In many cases, the mother — often from a poor background — has no contact with the father, and no knowledge of her former partner’s private details, be it a South Korean phone number, an address, let alone a Korean name. This leaves her to pay all child rearing expenses, even though the South Korean father has a legal obligation to provide support according to South Korea laws.  [Korea Expose]

You can read the rest at the link, but I would not be surprised if this is more than just a Korean problem in the Philippines considering its reputation for sex tourism.

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Tagum City Tim
6 years ago

– This IS a major problem here in the Philippines. Although some men step up and accept their responsibilities, most do not or do not know that there was a child born out of the illicit affair. I know personally of many cases where the foreigner boyfriend abandons the girl or just moves on to the next without caring.

One of the problems on the Philippine side of this issue is that the Catholic Church, a major influence on the lives of these girls, still frowns on abortions, which would solve many of these problems. This is not to excuse the dirtbags who think of women of the Philippines as disposable toys for their amusement. I believe that all those who father children here should be made to live here with the girls until child grows up. The government here is complicit in this too because although they do have raids on these bars and clubs where the girls work, they never completely shut down the places.

Angeles City is a prime example. Raid after raid temporarily shuts down bars for employing underage girls but nothing is ever done about the prostitution that is going on inside, which, by the way, IS illegal according to Philippine law (much like it is in Korea). The bar district of Angeles has survived the closing of Clark, Mount Pinatubo erupting, economic slowdowns which killed the tourist trade, and sporadic police raids to survive in one form or another for over 45 years.

So, to wrap this entry up with a bow, either stop the trade or shut the f*** up!

blueberry muffin mix
blueberry muffin mix
6 years ago

Infanticide wouldsolve everything. Yeah. It’s the Catholic Church that’s the villain.

What part of Catholic dogma tells the girls to have swx before being married?

Smokes
Smokes
6 years ago

Interesting you don’t see this story carried on Yonhap, KT, Chosun Ilbo, etc…

Actually it’s not interesting, it’s completely expected. 🙄

Tagum City Tim
Reply to  blueberry muffin mix
6 years ago

Hey Blueberry! I also said the that fathers should be made to live with the girls until the child grows up, but you neglected to see that part. Your liberal radar zoomed right in on the part about abortion. I live here, I know what the story is.

annie
annie
6 years ago

This is not just a Korean problem. It’s a Philippines problem.
More than half of the total babies were born from unwed mothers in the Philippines.

https://psa.gov.ph/content/philippine-live-births-2015

More than half (909,783 or 52.1%) of the total registered live births in 2015 were born out of wedlock. The three regions that recorded the highest number of illegitimate children born in 2015 were Region IVA(146,382), NCR (146,100) and Region III(97,834).

The proportion of illegitimate babies born in 2015 in NCR (63.0%), Region IVA (56.2%), Region V (52.5%), Region VII (54.9%), Region VIII (64.2%), Region XI (55.9%) and Caraga (52.0%) were more than half of its total births.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Maybe we should put statues of Filipino women on Korean buses….

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Vietnamese women from the Vietnam war era are first in line.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Soon there will be no seats left on the buses….. 😮

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Anybody else think Kristi is a MILF? Korean dude was lucky to hit that.

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