Genetic Testing Catches Fathers of Orphan Filipino Children

Space-age medicine in pursuit of an age-old societal problem

By: Jens Kastner

They were referred to as Iniwan ng Barko – “left by the ship” – and there are at least 50,000 of them, Amerasian children literally left behind by the ships from more than a century of colonialism and military deployment when their fathers ended their tours of duty at what were Clark Air Force Base and US Naval Base Subic Bay.

Although th…