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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.Mothers and Daughters ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TANONG:  Ang anak ko pong babae nagtratrabaho sa call center.  Buong araw tulog, pagdating ng mga 6 pm gumigising na iyan, kasi trabaho niya 9 pm.  Nag-commute ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.Mother-in-Law ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TANONG: Mother-in-law ko napaka yabang.  Kailangan star siya palagi!  We live together with my in-laws kasi my husband’s job is not enough to pay for a separate ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.Children of Divorce ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Answer portion for my last post)SAGOT:  Are you and your husband both Filipinos by nationality?  If your husband is of a different culture, your children were ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.Children of Divorce ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TANONG:       I was married to a man from California, but we got a divorce last year and I decided to come back to the Philippines. I have two daughters, 13 and ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.Separation and Divorce ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ TANONG:  Hindi po kami kasal ng kinakasama ko.  Pero nag pa bless po kami sa simbahan, kasi may asawa na po ako dati.  Civil naman po iyong una kong wedding.  S ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:41:46 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO. Teen-age Pregnancy ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           TANONG:      My teenage daughter is pregnant, but she’s only 14.  She says she and her boyfriend who is 16, really love each other and want to get mar ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:40:33 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.FATHERS AND SONS ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[            Tanong:  Si Tanya po ito. Ang husband ko lasinggero.  Every Friday night he goes out with his barkada and comes home dead drunk.  Usually, my son who ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO.THE FAMILY SYSTEM ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Tanong:  Ang Mister ko po may anak sa una niyang Misis. Teen-ager na po, at sa amin nakatira.  Mayroon po akong bagong baby na parang inis siya doon. Takot po a ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:03:49 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ TANONG MO? SAGOT KO. ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Any relationship encounters problems.  This is simply the nature of relationships.  Many times, however, we would rather not know about the problems so that we ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:03:45 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Relasyón:  The Key to Lifelong Bliss ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Relasyón” is a loaded word in Tagalog.  Although its direct translation to the English word “relationship” is innocuous enough, there are some nuances to the t ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ RELASYON.COM ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           In the years when I was an expat and would come back to Manila on home leave, I would be asked sometimes to help a friend, or the friend of a friend, ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ PARENTS IN PRISON ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[          Once a week for a year, I taught parenting classes at a minimum-security prison in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was a men’s wing and a women’s wing at the pr ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:32:01 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ BLACK PARENTING ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           Our agency in Oklahoma had a Black parenting program  (Effective Black Parenting), consisting of culturally specific  strategies and best practices fo ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ THE TRAGEDY OF LOSS ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           Carol was a member of my church, but I had only seen her at Mass, not met her formally.  She was referred to me by a friend who said only that Carol’s ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ COMING OUT ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           As Peer Counseling Coordinator at YST (Youth Services of Tulsa), I facilitated a support group for gay and lesbian youth.  We met weekly at our downto ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:54:34 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ THE CASE OF SHIELA ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           At the age of 13, Shiela was abandoned by her birth parents and became a ward of the State (Child Protective Services or CPS).  At 14 she ran away fro ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:59:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ “I WANT TO GO HOME” ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           I remember a stormy day in late Spring.  There had been thunderstorm warnings over northeast Oklahoma, and I was eager to get home before the storm hi ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:23:59 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ MY FIRST JOB:  YOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[           It was the beginning of the electronic revolution (the 80s), at least for me it was.  The agency was headquartered in downtown Tulsa, and everyone’s d ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:23:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ GETTING TO WHERE I WAS GOING ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[            My undergraduate degree was in chemistry, and for six years after college, I taught chemistry at the Faculty of Engineering in UST.  When Ed and I be ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:32:37 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ HEART-MIND HARMONY ]]></title>
<link>https://www.whattheholywifesays.com/blog/post/heart-mind-harmony</link>
<description><![CDATA[   ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:27:23 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ PERIOD POVERTY ]]></title>
<link>https://www.whattheholywifesays.com/blog/post/period-poverty</link>
<description><![CDATA[  Periods are a fact of life for many people, but an estimated 500 million women who menstruate lack access to adequate menstrual materials and appropriate sanit ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:59:33 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ INADEQUATE MATERNAL HEALTHCARE ]]></title>
<link>https://www.whattheholywifesays.com/blog/post/inadequate-maternal-healthcare</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It may be difficult for us who have had our children in an efficient hospital under a reputable doctor’s care to imagine the risks that many poor mothers face u ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:46:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ ONLINE HARASSMENT ]]></title>
<link>https://www.whattheholywifesays.com/blog/post/online-harassment</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Thankfully, I have never been a victim of online harassment, but I know of many women who have experienced the trauma of being publicly humiliated because of mi ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:46:02 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ THE DIGITAL DIVIDE ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  I’m in the process of writing a book on digital intelligence for the elderly, and my research has led me through many challenges, especially in the field of in ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:01:53 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ POOR MENTAL HEALTH ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ For many years when we lived in the US, I worked for two social service agencies first as a counselor in a youth serving agency, and then as head of program dev ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ting Manalac ]]></dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:07:27 EDT</pubDate>
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