Editing Mail-order bride (section)

===Philippines===
The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted the [[Anti Mail-Order Bride Law]] on 13 June 1990, as a result of stories in the local media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands. Because of this, Filipinas often used "reverse publications" – publications in which ''men'' advertise themselves – to contact foreign men for marriage to Filipina women.

Successful prosecution under this statute is rare or non-existent<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzhEUE35pRcC&pg=PA103 |title=Trafficking And the Global Sex Industry |access-date=2013-04-16|isbn=9780739113134 |last1=Beeks |first1=Karen |last2=Amir |first2=Delila |year=2006 |publisher=Lexington Books }}</ref> as widespread deployment of the Internet in the mid-1990s brought a proliferation of websites operating outside the Philippines which legally remain beyond the reach of Filipino law. One [[Montana]] site profiled in an [[ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs]] report entitled "Pinay Brides" circumvented the restrictions by characterising its role as that of a [[travel agency]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muPfQjYP-0IC&pg=PA55 |title=Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail-Order Brides" |author=Nicole Constable |date=19 August 2003 |publisher=University of California Press |access-date=2013-04-16|isbn=9780520937222 }}</ref> Thousands of Filipina women marry Americans each year.<ref>{{cite news |author=Mae Ryan |title=Imported Filipino brides share the ups and downs of settling in America |url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2012/09/26/28576/imported-filipino-brides-settle-into-love-in-south/ |newspaper=SCPR |date=26 September 2012 |access-date=9 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325113706/http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2012/09/26/28576/imported-filipino-brides-settle-into-love-in-south/ |archive-date=25 March 2015 }}</ref>