AFEW years ago I had a friend who lived in Tregunter. His wife was so horrified by the whole domestic helper syndrome (the notice was already there) that she refused to have one at all.
This represented a considerable sacrifice in time and income, because this woman was a fully qualified medical specialist and there were four in the family. But she stuck to it for their full two years.
I suppose most employers of Filipina helpers feel some surreptitious guilt about the situation. After all, these women are mostly married, usually mothers, and in an ideal world ought to be with their families.
Unfortunately, boycotting the whole sad scene doesn't do much good. The woman who might have come to Hong Kong, goes off instead to some Arab country where, if you complain about being raped by your employer, he appeals to Islamic law and you get floggedfor committing adultery.
The only real solution would be an improvement in the situation in the Philippines, and there is nothing most of us can do about that.
In the meantime there is a certain subconscious discomfort, which may explain the increasingly lunatic tone of the letters from the Tregunter Management Fan Club.