Children Prostitution

Even to a panel of experts, what factors that pose social problem so-called “children prostitution” are not so straightforward. Nonetheless, if we compile many reports on it and assemble information from the field, we will encounter both intrinsic and seemingly odd factors of this enormous problem. We can further conceive these factors as push factors and pull factors. The former is factors that are coming from situation inside a child’s family. The latter is factors that are going beyond a child’s control and incline her to certain experience to which she then behaves and responds.

The push factors include economic pressure, child abuse, sexual abuse, and early marriage. Low or absence of income in the family and ongoing increase of living costs depress parents’ ability to fulfill children’s needs and to send them to school. Then, these economic pressures invoke parents to do nothing when their children go prostitution. Instead, in some worse cases, parents themselves who feel reluctance if their children quit prostitution as it is the only significant source of family income. Family integrity is then out of the question. The pull factors encompass drugs syndicate and sex industry network, “cultures of denial” in the society for those who are losing virginity due to pre-marital sex, a colleague in school or informal work place, and demonstration effect of glamour lifestyle in adjacent entertainment or night life centre.

Albeit children prostitution may persist in forthcoming decades, we must convince many parties to undergo corrective actions about it. Notwithstanding we may not be able to terminate this social problem, we must levy our society obligation to mitigate the risks facing children prostitutes and to prevent other children go prostitution if we do not want to let the future pillar of our society collapse. Children prostitution is multidimensional problem, whereby we need comprehensive policy. Not only is it social affairs, but it is likewise economic, political, and legal affairs.