http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/09/rising-poverty-traps-children-sex-trafficking/ The Freedom Center's blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/09/rising-poverty-traps-children-sex-trafficking/comment-page-1/#comment-7133 Kelly O'Conner Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:56:29 +0000 http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1594#comment-7133 The on-going problem of children being sold into prostituion is horrifying. This is so wrong to be selling children into this "slavery" of sorts. Just imagine being bon into poverty and the one thing you have, their family, is selling them into this. "UNICEF surveys indicate that 30 to 35 percent of all sex workers in the Mekong sub-region of Southeast Asia are between 12 and 17 years old." This killed me the most, thinking of my sisters and little cusins being enslaved for the greed of people. And the sure addiction to money and sex. The on-going problem of children being sold into prostituion is horrifying. This is so wrong to be selling children into this “slavery” of sorts. Just imagine being bon into poverty and the one thing you have, their family, is selling them into this. “UNICEF surveys indicate that 30 to 35 percent of all sex workers in the Mekong sub-region of Southeast Asia are between 12 and 17 years old.” This killed me the most, thinking of my sisters and little cusins being enslaved for the greed of people. And the sure addiction to money and sex.

]]> http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/09/rising-poverty-traps-children-sex-trafficking/comment-page-1/#comment-7132 Kelly O'Connor Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:52:28 +0000 http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1594#comment-7132 I agree. From what I have read, it seems that children don't know what to do. They are put in a situation, where thier families need money so they feel that they have to leave school and help make the money. This then leads them into sex trafficing, because they are young and if they are told that they can get money out of it, then they will do it. If there was a way to keep the children in school so they don't get into these situations then I think that we could see a drop in the number of child sex slaves. People need to look into this more, I feel like some people don't see how much this is effecting other countries when we are stuck looking at what is going on in the U.S. We don't look enough at other countries and how they feel about whats going on. I agree. From what I have read, it seems that children don’t know what to do. They are put in a situation, where thier families need money so they feel that they have to leave school and help make the money. This then leads them into sex trafficing, because they are young and if they are told that they can get money out of it, then they will do it. If there was a way to keep the children in school so they don’t get into these situations then I think that we could see a drop in the number of child sex slaves. People need to look into this more, I feel like some people don’t see how much this is effecting other countries when we are stuck looking at what is going on in the U.S. We don’t look enough at other countries and how they feel about whats going on.

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