FR. SHAY CULLEN, SSC
The vast majority of Filipinos love their children — they care for them, pamper and spoil them at times. They do everything to protect them and educate them, meet their needs, and launch them on a career. There it seems to end for many. Love and care for children in general is not projected outside the extended family of the well off. It is clear the poor survive by helping each other stay alive. The dedicated few true Christians and Muslims work to help the abused and abandoned children, but they are the few in a population of 107 million Filipinos. Human rights workers are suspect and risk their lives.