Is child trafficking primarily a Third World phenomenon?
Child trafficking is a global phenomenon. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the problem has also spread to Central Europe. Children from the neighboring countries of Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe are trafficked into Western Europe. It is also the destination for boys, and especially girls, from Asia, Africa and Latin America, who are traded in the European Union and Switzerland. The children are forced to steal, kept as domestic help, used as drug peddlers or exploited sexually as prostitutes and for pornographic films. Even adoption child trafficking has a clientele in the EU countries. What are the causes of child trafficking? Poverty: The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming increasingly larger. Lack of local prospects, unemployment and a large number of children make parents susceptible to the promises of money or education for their children given by the traffickers. The young boys and girls leave their village to escape the miserable living conditions. Modernizat
