How Babies Are Being Sold on Facebook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2022
- In the Philippines, there is a thriving black market that sells babies. Many women who are living below the poverty line and cannot afford to raise a child are making the difficult decision to sell their babies. Natashya Gutierrez for VICE World News speaks to mothers and brokers to understand how this trade works.
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I pray that the babies grow up alright. You never know what the buyer actually wants to do with the baby. This is so disturbing.
Exactly what if a predator adopts it
First thing that comes to mind.. so heartbreaking
This exactly what I was thinking throughout and would hope was going to get addressed
Child porno to name a few.
It is really fucked up
Praying has been done for centuries and has never helped. Faith is only to keep sheep in their slave power. If there is a god, then why dictators in power. The country where you live is responsible for what happens. The best changes are only promised during the elections. Helping the population itself with its own people. And nobody does that, neither do you. and praying is for slave sheep.
It really angered me that the doctor denied her ligation. It wasn't his choice to make. Now he put her in this terrible position
Real, I dont know if he was just following the law or his own personal reasons but either way its fucked
@@askajk5895 archaic ass laws
@@askajk5895 if not married, they might deny you anyways and insist you wait till you're married.
It’s SUPER common especially here in the states. I know someone denied twice despite two pregnancies that nearly killed her 😒
Not easy here in Canada either. My doc kept telling me I was too young I may change my mind 3ct ect. even though I already had children also now in my 30s. It really isn't as easy as ppl think. Also here, we have a waiting list when they do finnally allow it, which can take up to 2 yrs even. Not right. Any women should be aloud to make that choice for themselves everywhere !
Olivia’s husband had just enough asthma to keep him sexually active to get her pregnant but too much asthma to work??
i’m dead. 😂
Right 🙄
I should have laughed as hard as I djd
Unfortunately, this isn’t uncommon. Many babies in the Philippines are sold. My cousin was actually an ampon. Her mother was very young and couldn’t take care of her, so she was sold off to my Tito and Tita. They couldn’t have children of their own. Luckily, they’re very loving and decent people, so she got the love she deserved, but unfortunately, many babies aren’t so lucky. My cousin is now married and expecting her own child
How do these "ampon" get their birth certificate?
@@ndnd6209 usually people who are trying to buy a baby off the dark web or Facebook tend to have lots of money, an you can buy fake birth certificates off the dark web for cheap its like 25 i think usd
God bless I'm happy to hear some babies do have a better life
I read Chinese men can't find enough females to marry
I am curious. Is it usually common knowledge when someone bought their baby? How does your cousin feel about it? Is it like regular adoption for them or is there some resentment toward birthparents or parents?
It is criminal for a doctor to refuse to do a tubal ligation on a poverty stricken woman who already has 3 kids.
I 100% agree. It should be up to the patient no matter their reason!
Is it criminal for a poverty stricken woman to consent to sex? Why is the responsibility for her pregnancy and childbearing put on the doctor if the doctor isn't the one getting her pregnancy?
@@jatnarivas8741 The woman requested a tubal ligation and the doctor refused to do it. Of course men should be as responsible for their sexual behavior as women. How's that worked out so far in human history?
@@jatnarivas8741 because the dr denied the surgery???
@@jatnarivas8741 shut up
Doctors need to stop refusing women sterilization.
Doctors should tell people to start thinking logically. If you don’t wanna get pregnant quit getting with so many guys. If you don’t want to get pregnant don’t let guys finish inside of you. If you don’t want to get pregnant don’t have intercourses. 😂😂 thinking logically should come before doing unnecessary operations on the human body.
They do that here in the US too. If the doctor thinks you’re too young to have your tubes tied they won’t do it but in this case it’s baffling especially if the doctor knows they’re homeless.
It really makes me upset when women ask to get their tubes tied and they are told. They are too young or can still have children. Let the woman make the decision. Especially if she is in severe poverty
As an adoption child from China, this gives me shivers. One of my biggest fears is to get kidnapped, to get put into human trafficking circumstances, to be sold as a human slave and to live years and years in someone's basement with no food, water or freedom.
I honestly reflected so much on it since childhood. About the fact that it could have gone REALLY wrong if I was adopted by the wrong people. Or that my parents sold me to "parents" who were actually the face of a trafficking corporation.
Luckely I've gone to a good family through legal adoption, who have given me so many opportunities. They couldn't get kids themselves so they resorted to taking care of 2 adoption kids and 1 foster kid. I owe them so much.
PS: I don't know my birth parents. My adoption mom told me that the adoption agency told her that they found me under a bridge. And that someone took me to a home. I don't know if that is true though, because they could have made something up. What I do know is that there was a one child policy in China at that time. In the end, I am thankful for getting adopted legally and safely.
❤ Well I'm glad ur safe and had a gd loving family..my prayers go out to to and ur future!❤😢
You're incredibly lucky. I heard they used to throw girl babies right off the cliffs in China during that time.
Бог тебя любит и бережёт❤🙏
You don't owe your adoption parents anything - it's your birthright to be cared for and loved unconditionally. If you grow up with an underlying sense of that you owe to them something, something is not ok. But I'm happy to hear you feel you have been taken care for in a good way. It sounds you're doing great👍
Wish you the best
95 USD for a child's life. This makes me sad
The same happens in the US under the CPS. Literally 1,000,000s of cases every year, except in the US it's more vi0lent and non-consensual, with the state using police powers to bust into houses and kidnap, and then do a triage, some of whom they keep for trafficking within the US elite.
@@DesertVox makes you question the worth of a human life. Shit is like some dystopian movie
Also makes you wonder how poor the family is if they are willing to sell their babies easily
And in U.S you can get killed for some Jordans same shit
@@puridewayani612 Hunger can be very powerful. Imagine you have 4 kids, no money, no food and your pregnant. Than you get the opportunity to sell one of your child’s to feed the others. It’s just mind boggling and sad.
This is what happens when you make contraceptives basically impossible to access.
They better fix this fast before they see having kids = making money.
Exactly. Adoption is human trafficking. Im adopted. Get an abortion.
contra ceptive is always available in health center..all you have to do is ask..and it's free if they are really willing.. cause that's what I do.. you can even buy contra ceptives pills in drugstores..
In my country contraconception is free but poor people have at least 8 childs
Honestly sterilizing people would be better than this
people here doesn't give a f about contraceptive or any family planning method.
You wouldn’t believe that this happen more often. When I was 12, a mother carrying her son went to our house and kept asking my parents if they want her child.
I'm so sorry you had to witness that.
Everyone knows this happens more often and this is the reason why they made a video about it. I dont get the first part of your comment at all 😅
@@tobiasfunke8967 No, not everyone knows or knows how common this is. I saw a comment that said there were no trafficking rings in America.
When a woman tells you she doesn't want to have kids believe her. We need to stop pregnancy BEFORE it happens.
The fact that she chose to be responsible and have a ligation but the doctor denied her!
This is the cruel reality of what happens to unwanted pregnancies.
There are mothers that are selling their babies for money, getting pregnant on purpose. You’re misreading
I agree!!
Well what would you prefer. Abortion...or this...
Frankly I dont care on both therms
Except its income for some
All around the world? If you’re selling your child in any part of the world you’re sick but especially in the US and countries like it you’re extra sick.
The doctor who denied her the tubal ligation knowing she's living with three children in a tricycle is a MONSTER.
It's kind of her fault for getting pregnant in the first place could have kept her legs closed.
You don't know her situation with the man who keeps impregnating her. He's also a monster, for not keeping it in his pants, knowing their situation. But she sought help, she sought a tubal ligation to try to help herself. She's doing what she can, and was denied. That's monstrous.@@manmanmanman632
@@manmanmanman632stfu she's married and has every right to have sex. The problem is those shitty doctors don't allow her and other women the autonomy to decide what to do medically with their bodies (in the case prevent a pregnancy)
@@manmanmanman632she lives in a slum, im sure rape and assault are as common as can be down there
@@manmanmanman632 gonna say that to the women who's legs were forced open?
As a first time mom this made me cry. I couldn’t be able to do this. I hope this baby is safe with her new family. 🥺
Facebook should have a legal responsibility to have enough employees to regulate their platform in other countries
Exactly how much money they have
What CAN WE AS PEOPLE DO TO STOP IT INSTEAD OF JOURNALING IT TO WATCH LIKE ZOMBIES
Facebook is heavily involved in the Philippines believe me...
@@wagwanbennydj6003 majority of their moderators are English speaking tho
@@strictlykev311 English is a commonly spoken language in my country. Even if you weren't fluent in it, you'd still get the gist of it.
This is disturbing and heartbreaking! Poverty and corruption is so rampant in the Philippines and the children become so vulnerable to these illegal activities 🥺
Legal adoption isnt any better.
All over the world 🌎 evil is being uncovered.
But we’re so pro life
And this is why we have to bury religious beliefs, its influence, negative impacts and moral superiority behind, make the separation of church and state more pronounced and think progressively...
Using of contraception and sterilization techniques should be a norm, should be easily available in health centers and cheap & easy to access outside of that... and abortion should be destigmatized, because abortion is not an easy topic to discuss and be implemented but as we have seen.. Child trafficking is rampant and thus, we have to do something for these children..
🤦
A whole family living under the cover of a bike. A disabled husband with no government financial assistance and a wife selling recycling to just almost feed them day by day. The thought that selling your new baby to give your other children shelter is terrible. The officials in these countries need to help these people. I’m not saying give them everything but there needs to be something to help them make it financially
She is so strong. Giving up a child to make it grow in a better place is a very difficult decision to make.
You are so crazy.
@@big7729 Why? Obviously it's not the best scenario but still you need to have some courage to do that.
I'm animal Kingdom female abondon their unwanted offspring.
What make humans different?
This world shows us humans are able to do literally everything for money.
I don't think people buying babies on Facebook groups have any intention of giving them a good life.
It’s not courage, it’s desperation due to being severely impoverished.
The poverty and her decision denied by her doctor is disturbing and heartbreaking.
I admit I was wrong to think one-sidedly about marginalized couples, especially the women, not opting for Family Planning. To hear this statement from the doctor who refused to allow the woman to get ligation is beyond comprehension to me. The patient WANTED to stop her pregnancy because of her current circumstance but another authority tells her she might want kids again??? That's messed up!
Yes, the reproductive health here in the Philippines is crazy. I went to my LGU's health center last year to express my desire of getting implants. I was denied for it. I would have understand that the implants were free but limited. They said that they'd prioritized other "less fortunate" women. Alright.
But the healthcare worker had to add and remark (non verbatim), "Your intention is questionable. You have no children, no partner, not active, yet you want to get one? You'll change your mind soon enough, in less than a year, I bet."
I swore I was flaring at her. Told her that there'd be no changing my mind and I know how long the implants had to stay in me. I researched it. I studied it. And I wanted to feel safe. I WANTED SAFETY.
The healthcare worker was IMPOSING her ideologies on me. Told me that I should opt for pills and condoms instead. I replied by saying I don't feel safe with the other two options. The last part of this unbelievable interaction was she said that if I began being "active" and have had physical relations, I could come back to "try and get the implants again."
WHAT THE HELL????????????????? Tanginang yan.
its like that in many countries unfortunately :( even in aus. while ligation and stuff is available, medical professionals seem to push back at every attempt - giving exactly the same reasons like "you don't have kids yet" or "what if your husband wants kids" (even if the person doesn't actually have a husband) - its unfortunately very common to push these ideologies on women regardless of circumstance :( I'm sorry to hear about your experience I'm sure it was very upsetting :(
I'm so sorry you went through this. Yes, in the USA even, it's becoming like this. Women have no choice over their own bodies.
Dapat dun, mawalan ng work para matuto. 😤
I am so sorry for this incident...
Filipinos are truly marites... Imposing their beliefs to others..
Yes, I really noticed with Filipino people takes on not having any child seems so odd since most do have children and to think that a government employee denied you of what you wanted is disheartening..
I asked for tubal ligation at age 20. Was told NO! Ridiculous!
I really hate that doctors don't let us get tied when requested cause we're "young". It should change. It's reversible anyways.
My cousin was openly jealous that most of our family had kids. He was single and gay, so he decided pay a poor woman to get pregnant (didn't care how) and he "bought" the child from her. He bribed the local hospital to help forge the birth certificate so the birth father was him and the mother was his friend. It's horrific when he proudly told me how he got his daughter and I never spoke to him ever again.
The poor kid is already four and could barely speak and socialize with other kids. She could only babble and hit other kids or roughly take their toys away. She also isn't potty trained yet or enrolled in a proper pre-school. I could tell something was not right, her care and development is severely lacking. But because her purpose was to be flaunted online, no one questions the photos of a child in fancy clothes...... I wish I could tell the authorities on this, I needed to see this kid saved from neglect. But I don't know how, not with this corrupt system in our country that made her situation real in the first place.
Birth simulation (the forging that happened here) is illegal under the Revised Penal Code and punishable with 6 to 8 years imprisonment. However, the recent RA 11222 complicates things as the government offers amnesty to offenders up to 2029 if they rectify and adminstratively adopt the child subjected to birth simulation. The process of making your cousin liable would have been easier without this amnesty law. Even so, there are provisions in the law for protevtion of children who are abused. In a perfect world, there exist a clear recourse wherein the child can be truly protected. The problem here is that the government itself favors the situation of a child having a parent rather than none. The bar here for neglect is so low that as long as the child is fed and clothed, it could be enough for the authorities to say that the child is in good hands. Especially, absent the evidence that the child is subjected to physical and sexual abuse.
I volunteered in an orphanage for several times. The abandoment issues are real. You will keep asking whether you are good enough or not when your parents don't want you.
Awww. Poor babies 😔
So damn sad. I could never give my babies up. I have 2 and im struggling but i couldnt ever give them away. Not my babies. No. But i get her reasoning though.
Us adoptees ask the same questions
Oh that's so sad. I wish i could adopt but times are hard here in America.
Yr whole life😢
this is why abortion should be legal and be a suggestion to poor family
There should be always be other choices.Sadly for some there is not.
When you are poor you don't need doctor to abort. If they realy wanted to do it they would.
@@plainsaw3771 Thanks, Doctor Plainsaw3.
@Kashan Pervaiz Selfish desire? You mean not wanting to subject a baby to unsafe conditions and a level of poverty we can't even begin to understand. Or do you like ''movies'' like daisy's destruction.
@Kashan Pervaiz An embryo/zygote isn't a child, yet. It's a clump of cells. Learn some basic biology. What about the life of women? We have to have a choice, not be ordered.
The ligation issue happens here as well. My Dr tried to deny me too when I was 32. Said I might meet my "Mr Right" and want to have a baby. It wasn't until I told him that I had a genetic disorder that he agreed to do the tubal ligation.
This is why abortion should be legal.
It is part of reproductive health care.
Thats why these women should keep their legs close.. Abortion should never be an option.
Facts
Why can't people abstain from sex to begin with ?
@@denzowarmbad5486 because we are human
@@killlaflame we have brains which we must use. Why are people so lazy to think? You can't prioritise your sexual feelings over the child that will be on this world because of you.
We must question a world where children can be bought & sold for $190 USD... What are we doing man 😢
It's probably been happening for as long as humanity's existence. Just now we have means to document it happening.
praying for all these families and innocent children of the Philippines❤🥺
I wish there was a way to support these families. That’s absolutely heart breaking.
you can sponsor a child or a family. It's only about $39 a month to change their lives - many charities online that help all over the world. You can choose who you wish to sponsor. But check their charity status first to see what their ratings are - how much goes to the poor, and how much they spend on admin.
Is the church and religion disapproval of contraception partly responsible for this?
oh absolutely
I wonder what they did before then?
oh yeah
@@NotAnotherKuromi have babies on top of babies and watch them starve
Yep
you let human trade go on... but you cant give them condoms... its cynical.
go ahead and tell me shes going to keep 5, make 1 to pay for all 7 of them... what is this world...
on the other hand... doesnt the philipines have the best surrogate system in the world when it comes to births...
I don't understand a single post of yours. If you'd let human trade go on you would want there to be more babies, so you wouldn't give the people condoms. It would only be cynical if you want to stop human trade and deny people condoms, but you said it the other way around. The thing is that the philippine government is so corrupt, that you can't assume they care fore human rights.
What is this keep 5, make 1 to pay for 7 stuff? Olivia is pregnant with her 4th child, or who are you talking about?
The Children’s NGO Network says: "There is no surrogacy law in the Philippines. The practice is considered unethical and against religious values. Since surrogacy is not treated in the laws, these children will appear to be the illegitimate children of the birth (surrogate) mother and the father of the child." So how does it have the best surrogate system?
Phillipines is a poor country man.
It's not feasible for government to provide free condoms to its citizens.
This is so heart breaking 💔I have my 10 year old daughter and plan on adopting in the future, but I would want the adoption to be a legal placement and not a Facebook transition. That just seems outrageous. I would like the family to still be able to be apart of the child’s life like an open adoption even if that means that means a yearly visit to their native country. I believe that mothers should receive donation from families that are adopting their loved ones. I’m so blessed and thankful and would like to help out wherever I could.
"we won't practice ligation because you are young and can have more babies". Isn't that the reason for that surgery though?!?!? Ridiculous
This is heartbreaking, I don't think anyone with truly good intentions for a child would buy one on Facebook
My exact thought
I've seen horrific stuff online. A person wanting to buy a baby so they can drop something heavy on the baby.
@@GateKeeper36 😱😰😩
@@GateKeeper36 :(
Exactly! This is highly disturbing. To say the least.
Given that this woman gave ya'll a whole ass interview and the full perspective of her life, did Vice help her at all? That's one question I have when I see these interviews and whatnot. Rarely if ever do you hear that the organization or person who just made an insane profit off this persons story gives back to the person who is the story.
Thank you ♥️
You think vice is making an extreme profit from a TH-cam video? Keep in mind, there are an entire crew of people that are involved in the process of sharing this news story. There's at least one investigative journalist, producers, writers, translators, editors, and more. For the high value production they're giving viewers, they don't make the amount of money a regular television news station does because this is only on TH-cam. They make some from ad revenue and have to beg for support and donations at the end of each video.
@@nnikkittenn actually yeah, I believe they are making a decent profit off of being on youtube and TV, so even 500.-1,000$ would be life changing over there.
They make money just from us watching
@@nnikkittenn yes they are🙄
Great call out. I never realized the currency swap between the Philippines and the US.
Im from the philippines. I've never actually heard of mothers selling their children on facebook. In my area, they straight up leave their children to relatives and never return.
Poverty striken country, inacessible contraceptives, and a corrupt government pushes people to do disturbing choices in order to survive.
So why get pregnant knowing u can’t take care of the child?
The Philippines needs to revisit its adoption law. I just don't get why a developing country needs to have a very tedious adaption law. I get it they just want to protect the children and avoid human traffickers but that is also the reason why these mothers tend to go on social media to sell their kids. Furthermore, the Philippines needs to conduct more family planning programs in these areas.
They need to make abortions legal, so they don't need to have an unwanted child an sell it.
The Philippines is a catholic nation therefore abortion is illegal and is heavily stigmatized.
@@redacted_vombat5742 I know that abortion is heavily stigmatized, but it doesn't change the fact that it would solve this problem or at the very least make it much smaller.
@@lolo_o4309 family planning doesn’t just mean abortion… the woman in the video was not allowed to have her tubes tied despite being homeless with 4 kids and a spouse that’s disabled
It's tedious because, well, look at how America turned out with it's foster care
living in a car is one thing...at least you have air con, windows for privacy, roof over your head from the rain..but a tricycle is just something else...terrible conditions ...must be hell trying to get sleep being pregnant and living with your family
The worst thing is that they don’t allow any type of birth control, that is just 1 easy solution to combat this issue.
Just keep in mind, when you are calling a company complaining about something stupid, you are so privileged to be able to complain about something. These people are barely living. It's terrible. Be thankful of what you have
Most of these babies will end up in very abusive places so sad
As someone who was in the foster care system in the US and watched multiple people be adopted legally from overseas before being mistreated abandoned or plopped into foster care I really have to wonder if this is actually any better because people who adopt legally often put their children through the exact same things as they do if they had been adopted illegally or trafficked. If someone's willing to spend $50,000 on a legal international adoption just to sexually physically emotionally or otherwise abuse that child is it really any worse that people are doing it without government oversight because the exact same thing is going to happen either way.
I voice typed this comment due to physical disability and did not bother to try to edit it.
You're absolutely right that the same issues are going to occur regardless. I think the main difference though is that a legally adopted child is at least registered somewhere in the country's system. So, they have a higher chance of being accounted for if their name is isn't enrolled into a school by a certain age or if they hadn't gotten certain medical shots. With an illegally adopted/trafficked child, the country's system isn't able to account for them. Their adoptive "parent" doesn't have to put them in a school or give them their shots. They can keep the child locked up in a basement and no one in that country would know they're "missing" or being "mistreated" because they're not registered. Basically, no one knows they're even there if they were brought over illegally.
The legal option at least gives children a higher chance of being noticed (by teachers, doctors, social workers, etc) when it comes to their wellbeing. In that sense, the illegal option is definitely still worse for the child.
Working as an assistant and seeing and hearing some crazy things and I agree and disagree with what you are saying. Legal adoption is essential in place to ensure the safety and well being of the child but with lack of support from family services negates the legal importance of adoption. Plus the adoption process is lenthly and costly and often denies deserving families the ability to adopt for silly and impractical reasons Honestly alot goes into making this subject so complicated and alot of it has to do with the money being passed around behind the scenes.
Much love and joy to you xo
Very valid point here
It might help people who really want kids but due to prices of adoption they can’t afford it. I think if it was cheaper I’d definitely be adopting alot of kids.
Contraception is always a good choice
Why even have sex & risk getting pregnant if you live in that type of situation? Sad just sad.
I was wondering the same thing.
Women in poor countries often don’t have a choice. Once they’re married, they’re seen as their husband property and if the husband wants sex, they can’t refuse……
So damn heart wrenching to know that a child’s life is worth less than of a dog, damn these people that denies these women access to a better life by not letting them do what they want with their bodies. This is so damn shameful. Nakakaawa sila at the same time nakakahiya na ang mga tao sa gobyerno na higit sanang mas nakakaintindi sa kagustuhan natin ng mas maayos sanang buhay.
this is why Facebook needs major regulations!!!!
I would say it will happen even if its with or without facebook. Mum, brokers and buyers will find their ways too. Its sad but it should be regulated by GOV
Check out the Vice interview with an actual Facebook moderator.
why not stop the problem at the root? Make contraceptives accessible to all. Any women should be able to get an implant at 18, no questions asked. “What if they regret it?” better to regret not having a child instead regretting having one. facebook isn’t the problem
It is not Facebook, It’s the PEOPLE on Facebook
No it should just be banned
I wonder what happens to the babies
This is incredibly disturbing. There are babies right now in very very wrong hands. And no one is looking for them.
Paid $190 USD for a BABY GIRL. That’s terrifying.
What a bargain!
@@rootfish2671 I dunno, Philippines. I'd want a discount on that rate.
@@adamweisshaup so not funny.
@@rootfish2671 you still have to feed it so it's an investment
@@Peach27219 still that's way less than what you pay for a baby in the US.
It’s so wild that like $3,000 USD would keep that first family going for like five years
“I was supposed to be ligated but the doctor told me I was too young and I can have more children” SCREAMING. That’s exactly WHY women ask for ligation - because we don’t WANT more children!!! Eye opening to see this is an issue for the most to least wealthy. I can’t have my womb removed for debilitating pain because I won’t be fertile anymore… I don’t WANT kids! I can’t wait for the day when women’s reproductive choices are respected.
Some very poor homeless mothers give
Their baby's away to friends and cousins that can not have a child.
I have known mothers that gave baby's away.
Incredibly heartbreaking to watch. I wish we could send aid to people like Olivia, in the hope she could have a better life and possibly keep her children too :(
I want to help them all
Right, like what if Vice paid her $1000 USD for this interview so she could keep her baby girl and get the house, car, etc she needs? I couldn’t imagine selling my baby for not even $100 :(
Facts but they not going
The children that actually get parents are extremely fortunate.
The reality is that's not what's going on. These babies are being to sold abusers and killers.
Exactly
I'm scared for children and babies that they could end up in danger. This is so horrible.
In a world where pedos drive 300 miles to meet a 13 year old girl that's very much a possibility.
Am I the only one who doesn’t feel bad for Olivia? She’s selling her child!
Knowing people like Peter Scully were active in the Philippines, this is horrifying.
I kept on thinking the same throughout the video
I’d never heard of him before. Wow, I can’t believe what he did is real. It sounds like something out of a sick fantasy.
@@rachelcookie321it was really a sick fantasy for him and his clients. i was so sad and angry upon reading the news about it
When i was a kid, my family was stationed, in the Philippines in the late 60's early 70's...My mother said she had never seen poverty like this and was shocked to see children digging through the trash for food...it appears it hasn't changed and seems just as bad....
The poverty rate is way lower today than in the 60s. Atleast look at the statistics instead of making a judgement off of a single video.
That's what religion does. Overpopulation and starvation.
They glorify resiliency to the fucking highest level.
And they love to vote for people who would fuck their life. 👏👏👏
More in-depth reporting from VICE, please.
heartbreaking, but i can't say i blame the mothers "selling" their babies. they have more control over where the child ends up (since an orphanage often isn't much better than just living on the streets) and they receive compensation that they need. it's so heartbreaking that they have to resort to that. philippines govt, get your shit together and stop preventing women to have access to birth control and make the adoption system easier.
These women are the devil himself
I don't wanna talk crazy but alot of poor mothers have kids for littearlly no reason no matter the circumstances and this is one of those cases where it's kind of on her.
@@manmanmanman632literally the woman in the video explained she tried plenty of options to prevent a pregnancy and was denied. The fact she has 0 control over her autonomy isn't "on her".
The women there sell their children out of desperation. If there were better regulation to prevent a pregnancy and something to be done to combat the poverty there wouldn't be a problem in the first place
@@nyxldx you have baby's off of having sex. I think she knew the consequences
Sad what couples will do to have a baby but yet people who don’t care about their babies and abuse them can get pregnant real easy
This is a sad reality in the Philippines. There's a lot of people were really sunken into a deeper poverty level in their lives. Due to lack of access in education and family planning. At the same time, it is also happen it because of incompetent governance that we have right now.
So many horrible things can happen to this babies
Some predators know this already and will purposefully travel to these countries to take advantage of children and babies. It’s sick and sad.
Honestly its a choice of family or baby, family is more important
@@kaleb7414 what? the baby is family . youre sick
@@lunaxcatx Yup western MALES
@@andivest1504 No, it's clearly not to them. It's just a tool to make money.
This is why abortion should be legal you can’t bring babies to be sold into slavery and prostitution because that’s where these babies are going
Imagine her mother being pregnant with her and she sold her, good chance u might or might not be living right now
I dont even want to know the kinds of people who'll get those hands on those poor babies..
....the worst, quite often. Pedos buying a toy, basically. :(
Why giving birth n destroying innocent babies lives do these women has a heart to realise that these babies could be used for organs n human traficking 😢😢😢
No monetary gains for the birth mothers to go the legal way. Yet the adoption agencies and all other legal routes charge "adoption fees" to parents who want to adopt. No baby is free anywhere in the world nor should it be. Yes the process should involve screening people and have standards but agency's shouldn't act like they give kids up to adoption for free. Money has always been involved in the exchange for children one way or another. Not hundreds but thousands of dollars during the exchange. Go look up to adoption especially foreign adoption and it's irrational how much the costs are. Thousands of kids grow up in adoption facilities because not enough people have that kind of money to adopt kids. Crazy way to exploit couples who can't conceive, kids who are not wanted and mothers who are forced to give up their babies because of dire situations. Adoption agencies are not perfect angels, they have deep pockets.
That’s not true in the uk it’s free but very hard in the uk peeople get paid for foster care but it’s one of the only countries that forced adoption is legal in
This is everywhere its very expensive to adopt in my country they make it that way cause they are afraid if it free what if you exploit the child you adopted ,or sell the child etc ,that's why they make it expensive ,people who adopt in my country are only rich people middle class and lower class don't cause its very pricy ,and so that causes a network of them buying babies in maternity wards,the nurse swaps your baby with another person's dead baby and sells your child .
Are you serious right now? You need to actually go listen to some lived experience of us adoptees and see what we actually have to say about adoption before you write a novel about adoption. Adoption in every single form is trauma for us adoptees.
Just wait when you find out that the adoption agencies sell some of them too, give them out to elites ans pedos
@@DezaRay24 Why is adoption a trauma? Growing up in a violent, neglectful home, better? I wish I had been adopted as a child
I've been pregnant and delivered once. Didn't choose to do it again because oh my gawd, the discomfort, blackout pain, after hormones are enough to for real kill you. This is in-sane.
Anemia, borderline diabetes, sciatica, hemorrhoids, kidney stones, flayed ribs, breakthrough bleeding, tears - no not boohoo tears, like rips. Stitches, cracked nips, breast infections etc. That's a glimpse of what it is like to be pregnant at 21. Can you f*n imagine being forced to go thru that when you have no means? I did that intentionally and purposely. Honestly some people act like it's taking a big dump. No, f*ck all the way off.
“We don’t have work and place to live, let’s make more children” wtf is wrong with this people. I wish them all the worse for selling their babies.
Thanks to my loving adopted family. They love me like there own. Now I have 2 adopted children and I love them more than my life ❤
These children are being sexually exploited and abused once sold away from their parents. So incredibly sad.
That was my first thought. Certainly not all of them, but after viewing this video, I now understand where some of the children come from that are used in the sex trafficking trade. Child pornagraphy, Satanic ritual and sacrifice. Earlier in my research I learned that some of the social services and orphanages are run and operated at the top by the global elite. In some of my research some of these orphanages and organizations have ties to Papal Romanism. The amount of evil I have learned that goes on is beyond comprehension and really causes one to lose faith and hope in the goodness of humanity. And it seems to me (as the Bible says) wickedness is only increasing.
I have always held to pro choice and personal privacy.
Why abortion and other private matters are now in the public sphere for discussion and in the governments hand is a sign of what is to come.
Prior to the 20th century all over the world, people took care of their private business privately.
And with big global government intervening, nothing got better. Something to contemplate.
"they help me with expenses, like rice" when the woman who is portrayed as sightly better off than the families she's trying to help sees rice as an expense, humanity needs to get their shit together. I wish I could help these women somehow
As a native Filipino speaker, I can confirm that she really said "rice"
We technically can!! If we like come together as just normal peope We all can help!some don’t have that mindset at all
I believe they can be helped through micro loans. A small loan of $50 can really help them begin to turn things around.
@@ranaevalentine9876 you're missing the point.
I'm fully aware that food is an expense, when one of the most "wealthy" members of a community has to use rice as currency, it's a greater economic issue than "food is an expense"
Get your head out of your ass
Selling the babies to strangers. Pray and hope the buyers have the best intentions and nothing malicious
It’s getting worse and worse out here 😢 I pray that this ends. I pray we all heal. I pray that we all spread love and peace.
Praying will not resolv nothing. Stop acting like animals, go get a education, find a job and protect your children and the people around you.
@@vivianaugusta3000 damn Vivian
@@vivianaugusta3000 education system here in the Philippines is corrupt also getting a job here is hard due to age discrimination
Filipinos are such kind and giving people, I'm so sorry that so many have to live in such poverty. Shame on their (openly) corrupt asf government
Tru
Did you even watch the video ? Filipinos are selling their babies… just handing them away to anybody with cash in hand.. Think about that sicko
Shame on the Catholic Church for creating all these problems with their views on family planning!
@@peppironee4736 Says the one who’s obsessed with having someone’s ass in their profile photo. It takes one to know one, right? Don’t get the taste slap out that mouth
@@microscopic.caterpill you mad bro 😂😂😂
The Philippines has a strong pro-life legal system, and it has been great for child traffickers. Soon the US will follow suit with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, so traffickers won't have to travel all the way to the Philippines to get their children. It's far easier to go undetected when trafficking within the country
If you support child trafficking, please write to your representatives and let them know you support the overturning of Roe v. Wade and any other pro-life measures
Yesterday was such a backward day in America.
Just sad
If anything it’s pro birth not pro life. People tend not to care what happens past the babies being born😓
Yeah, forcing ppl to birth kids they don’t want and then not providing any support for these families afterwards is a great plan. How does America keep trying to go backwards? If I could afford it I’d be gone
This comment really opened my eyes. Thank you for sharing. This is so true, if you don’t have money to look after a child unless you’re evil you’re going to be desperate to find them a better place :/
This is so completely sad!! I am adopted and this whole story is leaving me speechless! 😢😢😢😢😢
These groups are still on Facebook. I tried to report a few but it won’t even work. The report box just spins and never comes up.
I know a beautiful woman who was trafficked and sexually abused as an infant, then as she tried to grow up in a perfect looking white family which was not safe at all in a 'rich' country and part of that country.
She has a strength and compassion which meets too often with design of societal ignorance. She was sold to very dangerous nice white wealthy parents.
Now in her 40's, uncertain of which country she was even born in, or when her birthday is, she still yearns to find her birth mother and a way out of the crime world she was sold to. Her suffering is profound.. she still tries to get off the drugs she was given first as a little girl.
We suffer deepest trauma in the womb and if we live through it, our lives are driven by this 'unconscious' massive pain. It hurts and warps people, humanity, future generations and we see how mucked up humanity and what we inflict on each other, other animals and our planet as a result.
Make happy, careful love and children, not forced unwanted sex and unloved children and unloved, unloving lives...
listen to children and respect their needs BEFORE you make or force another to make a child.
Oh god, is she ok? She should sue her adoptive parents and maybe they’d be able to crack the “adoption” scam she was a victim of.
I'm 31, living here in PH, a freelancer, I don't earn that big but sufficient enough to pay my rent, food and bills. Me and my previous partners agree not to have children unless we earn so much and be able to have a savings more than enough. I can't have a family unless my savings will be financially secured the expenses of the family I will build, I'd rather die alone than to experience a tough life to my child.
Respect
Thank you... I'm kenyan 31 yrs and made the same decision. No getting babies till I'm financially stable
DO NOT OPEN YOUR LEG IF YOU DONT WANT TO FACE YOUR CONSEQUENCES!!!!
THESE CHILDREN FACE HORRIFIC SITUATIONS WITH FEAR, WHY PARENT LET THEM GO, SOMETHING THEY'LL NEVER FORGET, PRAYERS FOR THESE HELPLESS CHILDREN. THIS IS SO HEARTBREAKING, & DISGUSTING.
Abortion is health care. It should be legal accessible and free.
I think when you already know that abortion is not available in your country.
Why have unnecessary sexual activity with your partner.
Sexual activities just screws one's life.
@@samyakmeshram3286 It's a biological need in humans just like animals. Animals do it for pleasure but unfortunately have a baby they weren't expecting. Humans have the technology to prevent pregnancy, but unfortunately birth control is horribly expensive. I got my birth control for $177 and that's WITH insurance
@@stupidnotallowed2992 Biological need? 😂🤡
Saints and monks live their whole life without sex.🥶🥶
Even the poor dogs are suffering from malnutrition. Look at the poor dogs. Also, notice how many more girl children are being put up for adoption than boy children. I feel sad at the very least, but these are a few observations from this video to note.
Sounds like the government should strongly consider revamping their adoptions laws and processes. 💔
Sigh… contraception is very important too…
Looking at some comments here. It's apparent to me that despite ppl here looks to be financially rich, simple empathy is definitely lacking. Lots of self-righteous ppl here who prob never experienced real poverty similar to the reality challenged SCOTUS.
I agree. It’s not right at all, but a lot of these women are caught between a rock and a hard place. Because of their circumstances they truly feel they have no other choice if they want their other kids to survive.
Our World Needs So Much Healing. No One should ever be Homeless and/or be in lack of Basic Needs.
I just hope those babies are with good parents. And not one landed with a pedophile or bad people ☹️
Unlikely I think most end up with pedophiles. Don’t sell your children
Just imagine all the perverts getting ahold of these babies for unspeakable reasons. Do better humanity.
I wish I could send her the $20 a month to pay her rent ! No mother should have to live that way
contact vice directly they will likely know how to get in contact with her.
Me too !!!
I would send it as well so she would get 60....gosh this is bad. I would not have sex at all. I would say no for the sake of my children. This is really screwed up it is 2023. If you donate the foundations take the money.
This is so heartbreaking. This is so fucked up and there's no monetary compensation. These families need help.
You're right, but compensation is but a small problem compared to procreation. Wealthy countries are somewhat aware that there are countless adoption-children available, which is why procreating in a wealthy country is somewhat considered senseless and selfish, but the "somewhat" is the real problem. As long as procreating is falsely deemed a human right, when we really don't need to in the slightest, children will end up in horrible situations.
What do you mean no monetary compensation, they are literally selling the babies for money
Wish we can come together and get a group home for mother’s together there that provide them with resources food etc help them with their life having children a non profit some kindve way we can raise money for this Vice you report it but what are u doing to help I believe we are all apart or the problem we can record it but we can’t help support it they are us and we are them what if what they endure happens to us it’s so much money circulating in this world no human being on earth should be enduring poverty or homelessness if all our governments wanted true change they would’ve made sure of it yet we have chaos wars etc rather then peace an ending homelessness and poverty and starvation we are the problem the entire world
I love reading what kept people have to say about us adoptees that have lost everything because of adoption and the drama it actually brings to our lives. But you just keep talking about facts and knowledge and lived experience that you do not have. 🙄
@@DezaRay24 It's not adoption, but the subsequent situation which determines your quality of life. In some situations, adoption is the best thing that could possibly happen to you - that is, when moving from an abusive family to a compassionate family. Sadly that's rare.
In other words, for "us adoptees" there's a wide range of experiences as well. Some adoptions go well - the trick is to know which, and why, and say "fuck no" to all bad adoption families and/or bad adoption institutes. The courts should take notice, but probably won't, as they never have.
That being said, I do agree most adoptions go poorly, though that's mostly because the religious motivation is in play for many adoptive parents. Gullible parents cannot provide a good home for anyone except themselves.
7 bucks a day? It Is not okay of course but I sometimes have only 4 bucks to spend per day, and by the way I have enough brain to not get pregnant in this situation.
Instead of giving up their children because they can't afford them. How about giving up sex, since refuse to use protection. Not fair to the babies.
Yeah, I'm sure any women living in a slum can just say no to sexual abuse.
@@sophielorber4571 She can. Why can't she? Because she lives in a slum?
@@claypotts2334 You really think guys are walking up to you women, asking politely "sorry ma'am, may i impregnate you forcefully?" And she is going to decide then? 🤡
@@sophielorber4571 You live in a fantasy world where rape happens way more often than it does in reality. You think like this because of feminism. Women these days have rights, it's not the 1800s when a woman doesn't get taken seriously. Now that you have your equality you asked for, you can't blame men for making you miserable. Yet you still do. Because a woman is never wrong, according to feminism. No accountability, because that would mean you women would have to stop deluding yourselves about promiscuity and abortion and even basic contraception being unnecessary or invasive and intrusive to a perfect woman's free body. Because according to feminism, it's never the woman's fault. Only men do bad things. Right? Women are trash, just like men. Except now they are allowed to work and vote, and do whatever else they want to do, including aborting their kids without the father's consent. So be grateful that you live in 2023, because now you make your own decisions. You got what you asked for now deal with it
@@claypotts2334 It's funny how you say that I live in a fantasy world but you are the one thinking that women who get denied birth control would have access to abortion.
Facebook is slowly becoming the old Yahoo where illegal transactions happen.
The dark side of "free" access.
Facebook is getting a cut
The homeless pregnant needs only 25 US dollars to make rent . Anyone know any ways to get in contact with her ?
That’s what I was thinking as well. I’d love to help mothers like that
Maybe contacting the vice producers for the segment? I'm really not sure, but I hope this can be done
Oddly, in America people don't care about suffering unless there's a sad social experiment on TicTok with a homeless person. THEN people will start sending money, I saw one that was like $80,000 recently.
@@Beeboop7 you came to offer no new information
And the rest pays $900,00- $1,700. Sheeeesh.
I absolutely don't doubt this, recently my mother had one of her coworkers tell her that their daughter was putting her child up for sale while being pregnant in Tijuana who traveled from Guatemala. Its absolutely depressing how bad things can get
Imagine selling your own baby into human trafficking just for money. These people are evil.
Please make abortion and sex education widely available 😭
please teach child development and the pain of lifetimes caused by 'forced and unwanted 'children , teach sex education, remind boys to only go where they are welcome, remind women and men they must make love, not unwanted lives, fight for contraception and abortion, provide contraception and abortion, stop child (including sexual and baby) abuse and neglect.
Give women power and means to live well without this hideous desperation and cruelty.
@@karate4348 amen
It's grotesquely conflicting to wish a better life for impoverished families and children by recommending the killing of unborn children as a solution.
@Dragozinho You watched this video and yet you STILL believe women should be forced to have children they can't take care of? How can you be this stupid?
@@KletosMinistries zygote or embryo not children.