Criminal background checks

[cdnmatt]

Obviously you don't understand how these NGOs work. They will see a single Western man living with a group of kids and assume you are up to no good. They will not investigate you. They will not ask you questions. They will just assume you are guilty (in their eyes). They will then go chat to the local Lao police. The local police are the ones who will pay you a visit, or two, or three. And remember, the police don't want to be seen to be making a mistake in the eyes of the NGO

But I'm not a single Western man. These are Leo's family members. We'll get some form of legal guardianship over them, as we'll have to in order to enroll them into school, in case of medical emergency, if they get in trouble with the police, etc. I doubt we're taking them anyway, so moot point. See what Leo feels after he gets himself and us settled into Vientiane.

Besides, there's lots of white guys in Khon Kaen wandering around with Thai kids, and nobody bats an eyelid. People just assume some guy hooked up with a Thai women who already had kids from a previous relationship. Then again, Khon Kaen isn't one huge brothel like Pattaya, so maybe that makes a difference.