I’m not surprised this has happened.
I was listening to Messy Michon, who had this interview with a Philippina woman called Sharon Lapu Lapu.
It was interesting, to say the least. Here is my take and breakdown. She spoke on relationships and culture between Philippine men and women. She addressed the out of wedlock, which I researched (see below). She addressed the divorce rate, generation Millennials etc. She explained that cohabitation is considered normal, yet the older generation (before the Millennials) has the old traditional values.
She explained that it takes up to 5 years before you can get married to someone (man woman and vice versa) in the Philippines.
I am not a passport bro, but l live (Black man born and raised) overseas. The 36:40 argument she made about the out of wedlock ratio made me wonder. And I decided to lookup some information on this.
“Philippines' live birth rate continues to fall: gov't data.
MANILA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The number of registered live births in the Philippines continues to fall, according to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data released over the weekend.
In 2021, the agency said 1,364,739 live births were registered, equivalent to a crude birth rate of 12.4 or 12 births per 1,000 population.
[…]
“More than half (779,154 or 57.1 percent) of the total registered live births in 2021 were born out of wedlock," said the agency.”
(Source: Asia & Pacific news)
Philippines' live birth rate continues to fall: gov't data
“Single mothers are a fast-growing segment of the population. According to a study by the Department of Health and the University of the Philippines-National Institute of Health, there are an estimated 15 million solo parents in the Philippines, 95% of whom are women.”
(Source: wyethparenteam)
All things single mothers need to know about child support | parenTeam
This seems to be consistent with data found on several sites.
Furthermore, she’s 40 years old with a 15 year old daughter. She explained how the father of her child left her for 15 years and is from West Europe, Belgium. He left when the daughter was 1,2 years old. After that she met (the stepfather of her child) a new husband, 1 year after the biological father had disappeared. This guy was also from West Europe, Belgium. She married this Belgium guy in 2013 after she had a relationship with him for many years (about 8 years, off and on). However, he also disappeared for 6 years (somewhere in 2015/16) and died last year (allegedly). She has and had never been to Belgium, so I doubt she can confirm 100% the guy actually died. He probably had enough of the holiday-cooch and considered it was time to move on to some new steady holiday-cooch (but that's my assumption).
I assume the guy had a relationship in Belgium and used the Philippina-cooch to do his thing for vacation (holiday-cooch). She goes on explaining that she found out the guy was a dusty dude with no money, and was living off the Belgium government social security welfare-program.
It's a lot guys… I know. lol
She also explained a lot of Philippine Pooky and Ray Ray behavior (38:44).
It must be added that the Philippines has a colonial history. And to some degree enslavement of Philippine people into the Americas, in small numbers.
