in a 2016 article in the sungkyun times, 80% of filipinos are catholics, and catholics are supposedly discouraged from using artificial contraceptives and abortion. this religious factor of filipino women contributed to the increase of kopinos. the article said that 90% of the filipino mothers of kopinos who had talked to the we love kopino organization were women who worked by teaching english or doing some other type of work that did not involve prostitution. the article said that this high percentage of non-prostitutes was contrary to the idea that the majority of the filipino mothers of kopinos were prostitutes.