Trafficking of migrant children has unquestionably affected individual children and their communities in various immediate and long term ways. It sometimes endangers the children's lives. The obvious impacts of child trafficking often mentioned are on deteriorating their education, physical and mental development.
Impact on education of child:
as trafficked victims are under control of traffickers they are not allowed for education.
Traffickers do not allow victims to build their career ,they think that if these victims build career they will go out of their network.
These victims are engaged whole day in their work, they do not get time for education.
In many cases victims are made handicap (in begging) so it is difficult for them to go to school.
The work environment at sex establishments is mostly that which restricts the development of one's mind.
Impact on physical and mental development of child:
The victims involved in sexual act are more susceptible to sexual diseases(AIDS, STD, etc)
They suffer from physical incomplete growth (uterus, other reproductive organs)
they suffer from heavy bleeding and sever pain.
Victims of trafficking develops phobia of noisy places.
they also have lack of self esteem, frustration, isolation, aggression. They also develops malnutrition due to less food and heavy work.
Impact of child trafficking on society:
In many families, whole family involved in their occupation, when their children were trafficked, whole burden of work remains on adults.
Society express fearness about protection of their children.
Some returnees especially girls involved in prostitution increases the mv and STD (sexually transmitted diseases) prevalence in the society.
Families of trafficked victims have evidently turned everything they owned into money and spend it in search of their lost children, thus becomes poor.
Some parents suffered to death after hearing that their daughters had been sold in to Prostitute
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