Editing Flor Contemplacion (section)

==Biography==
Flor Contemplacion was born in [[San Pablo, Laguna|San Pablo City]] in the [[Laguna (province)|Laguna province]] of [[Luzon]], and was the second youngest of ten children. Her father died when she was 7 years old, and due to the increased financial pressure on her rural family she moved to [[Manila]] to live with an elder sister when she was 10 years old. Contemplacion dropped out of school aged 12 and soon after began working as a [[housemaid]]. Contemplacion got married in 1972 when she was 19 years old and eventually had four children. Her husband walked out on the family in 1987, leaving Contemplacion as the sole breadwinner.<ref name="Retrial"/>
In 1988, she travelled to Singapore in search of work to support her young family, eventually finding employment as a domestic servant in the Cardiff Road area of [[Serangoon]]. Contemplacion often worked seven days a week from 6am until midnight, doing household chores and looking after her employer's child.<ref name="A Death in the Family">{{Cite news |date=29 December 1995|url=http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/95/1229/org/feat3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012035214/http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/95/1229/org/feat3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 October 2019|title= A Death in the Family|newspaper=CNN}}</ref>