The United States is suppose to be the land of opportunity. That opportunity to some include illegal activity such as the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. The article, "Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States" identifies research that was conducted to broadly investigate the international and domestic trafficking in the United States. This research was initiated mainly because sex trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation is a national problem and reports indicate that it's increasing in scope and magnitude (Raymond, 2001).
The primary reasons and contributors of sexual exploitation to include prostitution of women and children listed in the articles and films are generally the same. The primary contributors or push factors were economic and oppressive conditions, lack of a sustainable income, poverty, lack of education, direct family pressure or coercion and lack of family support (Raymond, 2001). Often, women and children are subjected to violence and intimidation as means to control them.
By what the research suggests, there are things that government and non-government agencies are doing to assist victims to recovery and to provide them with resources they would otherwise not have. Resources and services that are needed for sexual exploited women and children include; providing dedicated federal funding streams similar to those established for foreign victims of trafficking, for sexually exploited American children, establish and fund a series of safe houses and transitional living facilities for exploited women and children around the country, and identify and disseminate best practices in services for sexually exploited young people (Friedman, 2005).
References:
Friedman, Sara Ann. (2005). Who Is There to Help Us? How the System Fails Sexually Exploited Girls in America. 49-52.
Kiem, Elizabeth. (2008). Child sexual exploitation in the USA: Not just a problem for developing nations.
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