RE: Today's Christmas I woke-up late but it's great compared to when I was young I'll wake-up early and then experience the misery
Yes Miss @wakeupkitty, the godparent thing is just a Catholic church invention, godparents really has no legal obligation about their godchildren but the immediate family or relatives of children who happens to lose their parents from one reason or another.
Family ties here in my country is strong and if it happens that a child for example lost both of its parents and temporarily cannot be taken by its relatives, the state from the Barrio council level up to the local government "municipality or city" government will try to locate its nearest of kin to inform them to take care of the orphaned child.
If there will be totally no relatives to take care of the child, it is taken to government institution for orphans. Sometimes such orphans doesn't like to be in those institutions so they would try to escape and live on the streets but it is a rare occurrence because most of the time a family or relative will take care of the orphans.
The child is not automatically sent to some foster parent/home which is common in western countries, and like you said, the child most of the time gets abused if not trafficked. I can't put my head into that fact where orphaned children are given to strangers which had no blood relations to an orphan.
Anyway, it is a tradition here in my country during Christmas time for the kids to go to their godparents, pay respect, and receive their gifts. However, this tradition seems to be not being popular to "modern" kids as most would just stay at home and watch TV, use their smartphones, and stay at home.
Maybe because they think that going to the place of their godparents are not worth it anymore because most likely the cash gift they will receive from them are lesser than their day allowance coming from their parents when they go to school these days unlike in my time where getting a paper money in higher denomination and then gifts if you are lucky are regarded as so big of deal that we thicken our faces and build inner strength just so we can get near people whom we never talk to just to receive something...or nothing at all and will just ask, who are our parents, or say, your father is richer than my husband and things like that.
My uncle (my father's cousin) even told me and my siblings even said to us after asking who is my father was, said that my father was only his employee. I think that statement flew of from my bother's ears but I remembered it clearly. A year after, I didn't bother going to their house anymore.
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