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Many families are divided
because of migration. In countries like the Philippines, a child may define family as an extension of relative or extended family while a child in another country may define a family as nuclear. Hochschild explain in her article, “Global care crisis” that many women leave their children with extended family or kin in search of opportunity. Many college graduate women are unfortunate in seeking jobs in their competitive society. Furthermore, migration became a norm for families to live an abundant and fruitful live. Children of migrated parents are giving the opportunity to attend good schools; wear fashionable clothing and accessories than children of non-migrated women. On the other hand, children of migrated parents never experience the mother- child bond every child wishes. Children from migrated mothers suffer from depression and wonder what life would have been if their mom were around.

Due to the loss of their mothers, young children form bonds with their extended family. In contrast their mother’s bond with their new family as their nanny. Capitalism forces women to migrate to others countries for opportunity so they can send money back to their families oversea for their responsibility in taking care of their children. Family abroad often send money back to their country to build a home, in exchange that their brothers or relative to care for the elderly parents whom in turn care to their children.                                                         Capitalism forces women to travel to another country so that government officials can profit from their labor. For instance, when a person sends money through money gram or western union they are charge a fee and the recipient is also tax by the bank in their country. Migration becomes “the common” for women without means. Hochschild wants us to see the reason women migrate is, they do not have the means, and is  force to leave their homeland, to be exploited for their labor, thus  to care of their families. On the other hand, women with the means can remain with their children as good mothers do. For this reason, migrated mothers are stigmatize as bad mother and is therefore forever taboo as a bad mother. Migrated mothers can provide entire gifts to her abandon child but she will never be a hero to her community or child. Capitalism creates division among the rich and poor and the migration trends will always be a solution to having commodities. Without migration countries will not profit from cheap labor as wells as families of migrated women would not have the abundance of wealth/ money.