Each year many ladies from the Philippines marry foreign men. Most marry to Americans but they also marry to Canadians, Australians, Germans, other European countries and even to a small degree other Asian countries. They marry foreign men for two reasons, one is for economic reasons the Philippines is a poor country. The 2nd reason women from the Philippines marry foreign men is they feel they make better husbands than Filipino men.
Many Filipino men have a reputation of being womanizers.
I have a Filipino friend who lives in Los Angeles and he travels to Manila many times a year on business. He tells me, my wife don't like me to go to Manila because she knows how I am. As for women in the church their problem is there are not enough male members in the church. From what I have seen in the wards I have attended in the Philippines I would say there are 4 to 5 single sisters for every single brother. LDS Filipino Friendship Connection was started by Raymond and Cristina Childs .