Fifty Questions About Child Prostitution and Trafficking

1. What age groups are most effected?
2. What countries have the worst problem?
3. What are those countries doing to fix it and help the children?
4. Are boys or girls more effected?
5. Are there any agencies, organizations, or groups that are doing anything to stop trafficking?
6. What are some tactics traffickers use?
7. What is the history of prostitution?
8. What are the economics in the countries where this is happening and is there a correlation?
9. Where does the US rank?
10. What kinds of work do the kids do who are sold into slavery?
11. Do parents try to find their kids?
12. Do parents sell their kids?
13. What are the working conditions like for the kids?
14. What is the usual outcome for child slaves?
15. Do any of them escape?
16. How much money are the traffickers making?
17. What is the punishment for traffickers in the different countries?
18. Are police involved with the traffickers?
19. How organized is the trafficking?
20. Are there any known organized trafficking groups?
21. What are some psychological effects on the children?
22. What is the mortality rate of the children in these conditions?
23. Are there certain countries that traffickers pick up kids from and take then take them to a different one?
24. Where are the majority of trafficked children from that end up in the US?
25. What are parents doing to protect their children?
26. Where are the people usually from that buy trafficked children as slaves?
27. Where are the people usually from that buy children as prostitutes?
28. Are there any punishments for people from the US going abroad and purchasing children for sex?
29. Are children educated about safety in countries where this is a major crisis?
30. How many children does this happen to?
31. What are the conditions child slaves live under?
32. Does the US buy any of the products that they make?
33. Why are US citizens who are minors prosecuted for being prostitutes but not girls that are trafficked from other countries?
34. Are child slaves ever let go?
35. What do they do as adults ?
36. How many children die from sexual transmitted diseases?
37. What are some other leading causes of death among child prostitutes?
38. What are some health conditions that child slaves deal with?
39. How closely related is child pornography and child prostitution?
40. Are there any agencies that deal with rehabilitating the children that are rescued or run away?
41. Are parents punished for selling their kids in other countries?
42. How many kids are trafficked into the US for labor or sex?
43. How popular is the sex tourism?
44. Do children prostitutes get paid at all?
45. Do child prostitutes continue the cycle once they are adults?
46. What is the percentage of girls that get pregnant?
47. What do if a girl gets pregnant?
48. Are there other crimes associated with child trafficking?
49. Are the children ever forced to use drugs?
50. What can an individual do to help stop child trafficking ans prostitution?