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Opinion: Why Decriminalize Child Prostitution?

Believe it or not, the average age for a girl entering prostitution is 13 years old, and the average age is declining as buyers want younger and younger children. Nobody knows exactly how many kids end up being sold for sexual services, but the number is in the multiple thousands and the problem grows bigger and expands to...

UN Pushes Its Bans on Child Soldiers, Sale of Children

(May 26) -- A third of the world's nations still haven't signed treaties outlawing the recruitment of child soldiers and the sale and prostitution of children. A decade after the United Nations adopted the accords, the U.N. says it's taking them way too long to do so. "In too many places, children are seen as commodities,...

Background on child prostitution

Prostitution of children or child prostitution is the commercial sexual exploitation of children in which a child performs the services of prostitution, for financial benefit.

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