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Platinum Member | Редактировать | Профиль | Сообщение | Цитировать | Сообщить модератору US teens often forced to trade sex work for food, study finds Цитата: Teens in low-income communities, overlooked by childhood nutrition policies, do sex work, save school lunches, sell drugs and join gangs for food, report says ... Teenagers in America are resorting to sex work because they cannot afford food, according to a study that suggests widespread hunger in the worlds wealthiest country. Focus groups in all 10 communities analysed by the Urban Institute, a Washington-based thinktank, described girls “selling their body” or “sex for money” as a strategy to make ends meet. Boys desperate for food were said to go to extremes such as shoplifting and selling drugs. The findings raise questions over the legacy of Bill Clintons landmark welfare-reform legislation 20 years ago as well as the spending priorities of Congress and the impact of slow wage growth. Evidence of teenage girls turning to “transactional dating” with older men is likely to cause particular alarm. ... In every community, and in 13 of the 20 focus groups, there were accounts of sexual exploitation, often related with distaste. A girl in Portland, Oregon told researchers: “Its really like selling yourself. Like youll do whatever you need to do to get money or eat.” Another comment from Portland: “Youre not even dating … theyll be like … ‘I dont really love him, but Im going to do what I have to do.” Many prefer to rationalise what they are doing as dating of sorts. A boy in rural North Carolina said: “When youre selling your body, its more in disguise. Like if I had sex with you, you have to buy me dinner tonight … thats how girls deal with the struggle … Thats better than taking money because if they take money, they will be labeled a prostitute.” In seven of the 10 communities, teenagers told stories of girls exchanging sexual favours with strangers or stripping for money in abandoned houses, at flea markets and on the street. A girl in San Diego, California, said: “Someone I knew dropped out of high school to make money for the family. She felt the need to step up. She started selling herself.” Another girl in Chicago told researchers of an 11-year-old girl who dropped out of sixth grade to work in the sex trade, while boys in Los Angeles described how middle school girls put up flyers in public places to advertise their services. ... The report is not an attempt to provide national statistics but does cite research that estimates 6.8 million individuals aged 10 to 17 are in food-insecure households, including 2.9 million with very low food security. | Кто не понимает англ - исследование показало, что примерно 70% подростков в обследованных бедных районах сша продают своё тело, торгуют наркотой, воруют в магазинах, чтоб свести концы с концами в плане хотя бы питания. Девочки больше в сторону секса за деньги (в части случаев "я с тобой сплю, ты мне оплачиваешь обед, чтоб не посадили за проституцию"), пацаны - наркота, магазинные кражи, уличные банды. Оценочно насчитано, что к данной группе относится 6.8 млн подростков от 10 до 17 лет. Словом, да здравствует сладкая американская мечта. |