The Role Of Human Trafficking In Family Matters

In this week’s Family Matters radio show sex trafficking was the topic. I think the idea of who the victims of human trafficking are is highly misinterpreted, for in the radio show we learned that the victims of sex trafficking are not always girls, they can be boys, and even trans genders. This has become a problem that can occur to anyone, any sex can be victimized and at any age. Sometimes girls as young as 9 year olds are victims to this horrible crime. At this age they are too young to make the choice of whether they want to be involved in that business, sex trafficking is not a choice. In a way this ties back to the radio show talk about foster care, because kids don’t have a choice either of whether or not they wanted to be a part of the system. This can relate back to our class discussion of how certain people aren’t given options in their life, like DACA receivers, foster care kids, and victims of human trafficking. …show more content…
Take for example, when someone pays for sex, the money they spent is going to get put into the economy when the receivers buys something with it. However, what if the sex trafficking is done internationally? This negatively affect ones GDP because the money one receives is not accounted for. This ties back to our class discussion about the GDP because we learned that the GDP measures the value of all domestic good and services that are sold abroad. Therefore, when sex-trafficking is bringing money into the country illegally, it cannot be accounted for so therefore it negatively affects the