One of the student groups within our section decided to choose the Effects of Child Prostitution on Society, as their final presentation topic. They when on to explain how almost 100,000 children are being taken from their homes and lived and thrown into the business of human trafficking with many of them put specifically into prostitution and sex trafficking. Many of these children come from highly populated metropolis throughout the United States and various countries in both Europe and Asia. Many of these children are between the ages of 9 and 17 but the average age of the child is 13 when they are initially taken. The group also noted certain bills that have been passed in order to try and stop this shattering of lives, but in my opinion, none of them are really doing the job. I personally was intrigued by this group's presentation because I did a paper on human trafficking and prostitution a few years ago. It is so depressing to see the statistics are almost exactly the same with no new reforms in government to try and prevent this. The business of child prostitution is so detrimental on these children that many of them, both those who are lucky enough to get out of the system and those still stuck within in are emotionally and physically damaged. They are unable to get their childhood back and ultimately end up commiting suicide if the harass conditions and diseases of the system that they are in don't kill them first. I'm glad that the topic of child prostitution was discussed because it is one that rarely gets much light shined upon it for the world to see.
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