Should Filipino Mothers leave their family (kids) to work abroad

Did you read the OP's question? It didn't state parent, it asked about mothers. So you are obviously another one that doesn't read and respond to questions within the context it was asked! You are also very presumptuous and arrogant as to regard what you believe other people are thinking.

there is actually two questions in the OP, not one. The first question says mothers and the second one just says Filipinos.

then someone else jumps in and claims that Filipino guys don't work away to the same level as women do, as if Filipino guys are all shiftless, lazy and irresponsible (another popular foreigner myth), when this is just not true.

it is true that unlike before, among OFW's men are not in the numerical majority any more like they used to be, and are now marginally outnumbered by lower paid women OFW's, who almost certainly contribute less in their remittances back home.

but OFW's aren't the only workers that have to move away from their families to get jobs and who send money home. Millions more Filipinos move to large cities and especially Manila, and also to different islands where there are large workplaces like factories, shipyards, and mines, but which are too far away from their homes to commute. These kind of jobs aren't as far away from there homes as the overseas jobs are, but it still often means that they are away from their families for months and sometimes even years at a stretch.

There ARE a lot of women domestic absentee workers. There is a lot of female maids from the provinces working for Filipino families in Manila. There are big employers like electrical components factories that do employ large numbers of women, and not so many men, many of the predominately female workforce coming from different islands who have moved there and are away from their families like female OFW's are.

but when you add together all the guys that work away from their families in not just overseas jobs, but jobs in workplaces like factories and shipyards in different parts of the Philippines to where their families are, where they have to live in hostels and boarding houses and from where they send money back to their families the same way that overseas Filipinos do, then they outnumber the women ones comfortably.

I guess your referring to me in this comment, what I strongly suggest is that you read all the previous posts and then review my post in the full context of my response and not disseminate it to twist to your own needs.
In previous posts you ramble on about the marine industry being male dominated and you are correct so there you have your SUPPLY AND DEMAND as industry cuts back the SUPPLY AND DEMAND are for other skills!

On a different note whereabouts in the world are you at the moment?

There is a contradiction in the thread titles. There are essentially two of them.

Yes a complex topic. And not all those that elect to work overseas for months on end will do so out of shear need. A work mate of mine lives in the Philippines with his wife and two children. They had a nice house in the hills overlooking Manila, a second house in Ilo Ilo and an apartment just outside Manila too. In his mid fifties, he has been retired on a very generous company pension indeed yet he still chose to buck early retirement to work in the U.K. away from his home in the Philippines for 6 months at a time.

We wondered why and at the end of the day it was not real need at all. Part of it was to finance school fees at the top British school in Manila.

But I am sure that for many Filipinos, working overseas is a way of providing for family in way that they would otherwise not be able to do.