OFW's

   Overseas Filipino Workers are very interesting for me and it made me think during class, does the positive implications of "Brain drain" or more specifically Filipino's leaving the country for better income abroad outweigh the negative effects that occur within the country?

 
 If we think about it since the programs integrated by our government during the height of the demand for OFW's like the "Supermaid program" or the efforts made by TESDA (Technological Education and Skills Development Authority) to train OFW's including but not limited to welding, domestic helpers, mechanics etc. was it really effective? True the Philippines overall GDP has reached its highest in years and a number of OFW's returned wealthy in a matter of a few years but was it worth risking the lives of the few? People tend to forget or fail to research on what the implications of their actions would be. Government censorship or even just the plain old lack of initiative in the part of citizens have resulted to the failure of voicing out the negative effects of the program such as the implications on the family. The population of Filipina overseas workers is rather large, and in most cases they leave behind their family which leads to the first negative effect, Marriage is usually neglected or the loyalty and respect to the sacrament slowly diminishes as time passes for most families, also the children are deprived of the love and care of the mother which sometimes leads to the abnormal or unique development in most of the youth today. The next negative effect is the increase of abuse against our fellow countrymen have yet to cease and lastly and what I think is the most alarming is the increase of the underemployment rates not only in the domestic domain but the international realm as well. Most "Supermaids" are college graduates and our government has failed to utilize and maximize the skills and talents of the inhabitants of this great country, to put it more bluntly why train "Supermaids" when we could be training " Super Engineers" or "Super Doctors" and "Super Lawyers".