
Originally Posted by
Seamus Fermanagh
Well, as Horetore correctly notes, this is human/child trafficking pure and simple. It is a crime to be on either end of such a market exchange because of our basic belief -- acknowledged virtually everywhere -- that humans are not and should not be treated as property.
Sadly, the selling of one's children by poor families -- particularly the girl children -- has a long and cross-cultural history. Moreover, one of the saddest elements is that the sellers often believe, because of their own poverty-stricken status in most cases, that they are doing "the right thing" for their child. Sad.
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