2. Wife selling in England was a way of ending an
unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement
that probably began in the late 17th century,
when divorce was a practical impossibility for
A child bride is all but the very wealthiest. After parading his
someone who is wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or
not physically waist, a husband would publicly auction her to
and emotionally the highest bidder. Wife selling provides the
reached to the backdrop for Thomas Hardy’s novel The Mayor
age when one of Caster bridge, in which the central character
can understand sells his wife at the beginning of the story, an
the real meaning act that haunts him for the rest of his life, and
of marriage ultimately destroys him.
3. The most egregious misconduct
encompasses ―child laundering,‖ that
is to say the illegal transfer of children
There are 215 million children
involved in child labor, and 115 million
from birth families through child
of these children are involved in buying or kidnapping, to launder them
hazardous work. Hazardous work is through adoption systems as
any work that can harm the health, ―orphans‖ and then ―adoptees,‖ or
safety, or morals of children. This
includes but is not limited to, child even the ―production‖ of children for
soldiers, trafficked children, and adoption by way of ―baby farms.‖ In
those who work in unstable these scenarios, the child is nothing
environments for very low wages.
Hazardous child labor needs to come
more than a commodity to be sold to
to an end and regulations need to be the highest bidder.
made concerning the jobs, health, and
education of non hazardous child
laborer.
4. This slavery is done in order to pay
back a debt or loan to another person.
Tens of thousands of 15-20 Million people have perished in this
―comfort women‖ in Asia type of slavery in Asia, and is a type that
were forced into is constantly growing world wide. The
prostitution at military only ways to redeem yourself from this
brothels. In addition, many bondage are to pay the debts in the pre-
girls were abused sexually descripted way or to pay back the work
in railroad wagons, factory in forms of slavery.
warehouses or night after
night at home. Most of
these women have suffered
physical and emotional
consequences ever since.
5. The commercial sexual
exploitation of children is the Forced labor is a practice of
most hidden form of child compulsory labor exacted by a
abuse in North America today. state or by agencies of a state,
It is the Nation’s least other than as a punishment for a
recognized epidemic.” -Richard criminal offence. It was quite
Estes, University of common in the French, German,
Pennsylvania, School of Social Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish
Work Center for Youth Study. colonies in Africa, and, to a
lesser degree, in the British
colonies (where the inhabitants
performed such labor in lieu of
taxation).
6. While sex trafficking often grabs the
headlines and attention, there are many other
The organ harvester kills a ways in which women and girls are forced into
specimen of mankind to sell a fresh lives of prostitution. No matter how a girl
organ to another specimen who enters prostitution — whether she is responding
needs it to live better and is willing to the pressures of her circumstances or is
to pay a premium to jump the actually coerced — the experience leaves a
queue for a legitimate transplant. lasting imprint on her future.
What shocks our conscience is the Once a girl or women enters prostitution it can
combination: a murder, the profit be hard to leave. It’s not uncommon for pimps
motive, the use of our organs as to use a variety of methods to force women to
tradable goods, and the use of continue serving as prostitutes. Often, they
money to jump the queue of ill lure girls with alcohol or drugs, build up their
people waiting for a transplant. If dependency and use this addiction as a means
we deconstruct this shock, we will of control. They may also threaten girls with
see that organ harvesting is not the shame they might bring on their families if
morally much more repugnant than they leave or the punishments they might
other forms of murder. suffer if they go to the police.
7. The military use of children is
widespread. There are international laws
KIDNAPPING is a complex criminal
offense. Typically, kidnapping is the and dedicated organizations like Project:
taking of another person against their AK-47 committed to liberate child soldiers.
will and holding them in unlawful The truth is many of the world’s youth
confinement. Kidnapping could be for have never known peace. Some kids are
the purpose of ransom or political taken from their homes and forced to
maneuvering. So-called ―traditional‖ fight. Others join the war because there is
kidnapping is the smallest percentage of
little else to do and to keep their bellies
kidnapping offenses in the United
States. The majority of kidnapping cases filled. In countries with limited
involve the taking of your own child electricity or running water and few roads,
across regional or state lines outside the many boys must forgo school to make
agreed custody arrangement. If the money any way they can, even following
child is competent and is not unhappy or cows with upturned palms to catch
agrees with their removal from the home excrement to sell as fuel. Joining the army
or court arrangement then it is generally
guarantees free food, clothes and
classified as ―child abduction‖ instead of
kidnapping. cigarettes plus the chance to swagger.
8. Sharecropping came to define the method of land
Over a thousand men, smuggled into lease that would eventually become a new form of
Oman, return to Pakistan by boat after slavery. Without land of their own, many blacks were
they were arrested. South Asians are drawn into schemes where they worked a portion of
smuggled into the Middle East each year, the land owned by whites for a share of the profit from
but many are caught and sent back. the crops. They would get all the seeds, food, and
equipment they needed from the company store, which
Many individuals who consent to being
allowed them to run a tab throughout the year and to
smuggled are escaping poverty, seeking settle up once the crops, usually cotton, were
opportunities abroad, or escaping gathered. When accounting time came, the black
natural disaster, conflict, or persecution. farmer was always a few dollars short of what he owed
Others may be seeking asylum. While the landowner, so he invariably began the new year
many who are smuggled are poor and with a deficit. As that deficit grew, he found it
uneducated, there are also others who impossible to escape from his situation by legal means.
The hard, backbreaking work led to stooped, physically
belong to the educated middle class. As
destroyed, and mentally blighted black people who
such, perhaps the only generalization could seldom envision escape for themselves or their
that can be made about smuggled children; their lives were an endless round of poor
individuals is that they are all on a quest diet, fickle weather, and the unbeatable figures at the
for a better life. company store.
9. Child trafficking is a serious problem
in many Middle Eastern countries.
Work under a restrictive contract While there are few official statistics
of employment for a fixed period in on the child trafficking, there is
a foreign country in exchange for enough information about the victims
payment of passage, of trafficking to know that child victims
accommodation, and food. of sexual exploitation have been
Indentured labor was the means by reported throughout the region. Young
which many British people girls are also trafficked into the Middle
emigrated to North America during East for arranged marriages and
the colonial era, and in the 19th– commercial exploitation. Often times
early 20th centuries it was used to these arranged marriages will involve
recruit Asian workers for the marriage of an underage girl in
employment elsewhere in European exchange for financial compensation to
colonial empires. her family.