Having sex at a price of any kind is called prostitution.
Adolescent child prostitution or prostitution by adolescent children are also called adolescent prostitutes or juvenile prostitutes.
Here, the word adolescent prostitute is not equivalent to the word juvenile prostitutes, but it is seen as an analogy.
This is because the youth age group includes boys and girls and young adults under the age of 24 years-old.
The causes and motives of prostitution in adolescent children
The motives and causes of prostitution by adolescent children are complex such as.
· Adolescent children with lacking sex values,
· Adolescent children with social and/or family problems,
· Some of the adolescent children who have been abused by pedophilia engage
in prostitution.
· It is common for depressed adolescent children and depressed adolescent girls to
have emotional problems.
· Runaway teenage children,
· Adolescent children with economic problems,
· Adolescent children with mental retardation,
· Some of the children in families whose home function is broken also engage
in prostitution.
· As a way of expressing anger, negative behaviors such as prostitution, alcohol,
runaway, drug addiction, assault, aggressive behavior, and refusal to attend school
are sometimes used.
· As a way of expressing anger, they can lead to burglar acts of invading and stealing something, and other symptoms of depression. And they can engage in prostitution as a way to express their anger.
· Some of the adolescent children who grew up not fully trained with unconditional true love and right love from their parents are likely to fall under the control of human groups who have no interest in the well-being and peace of others and in the future, and who are only concerned with their self-interest. There are cases in which prostitution is practiced under the control of a group of human beings who are only in need of self-interest.
· In particular, adolescent children with moderate or severe depression may lose the ability to think reasonably and develop a wide range of thinking disorders. Because of this, they abuse habitual drugs, fall into alcoholism, be assaulted, engage in prostitution, criminal acts, or even commit suicide, etc
Countermeasures against prostitution in adolescent children
· Most adolescent children who engage in prostitution tend to continue
prostitution. Prostitution on its own can make them more mentally depressed,
lose their wholesome self-esteem, and become weaker and weaker physically.
· They can get infectious sexually transmitted diseases, and when they get pregnant
and have a baby, they suffer more and become socially isolated.
· It is easy to get into a group that is not interested in human well-being and
happiness, rights and love, affection, and sympathy at all and is only interested in
self-interest.
Photo 2-26. Young children have fear of beasts such as bears and tigers, and there is separation anxiety that they will be separated into parents. Copyright ⓒ 2012 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP
Photo 2-27. Children have fear of the beasts such as tigers, bear of their parent’s separation, divorce or death, fear of being bullied at school, not being able to follow school studies or fear of being violated by gangsters, and fear of dying from sickness. Copyright ⓒ 2012 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP
· In order to guide them so that they can lead social life with productive and sound healthy self-esteem and pride, it is necessary to solve them at the national level, such as food, clothing, shelter, love, sleep, and health care, which are essential human conditions.
· At the same time, the state must help them to lead a stable life mentally, physically, domestically, and socially.
· Their home, as well as at the social or national level, must ensure their basic human prerequisites.
· At the same time, the state, society, and family become a prostitution relief team for adolescent children, providing school education, life education, vocational training, etc., and nurturing healthy self-esteem.
Mental and physical health care must be taken care of.
· Finally, families, society, and the state must accept them with love and lead them with love.
· It is also absolutely necessary to have an attitude that protects the growing and developing human shoots with warm loving touches.
· Family doctors, pediatricians and specialists, clinical psychologists, social welfare, state agencies, and the state should become members of the adolescent child prostitution relief team to take responsibility and protect them.
· Then their healthy self-esteem and sound pride will come alive and they will be able to become productive members in this society.