Child Trafficking In America

Trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon affecting large numbers of children every day and it is a curse to our civil society. Child trafficking is about taking children out of their protective environment and preying on their vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation. Children and their families are often lured by the traffickers for employment, education, marriage and prosperous life far from their homes. Some others are kidnapped, abduct and buying and selling for unlawful gain. Trafficking violates the very fundamental right of a person to live with dignity and liberty. Trafficking violates a child’s right to grow up in a family environment and exposes them to endangers, including violence and sexual abuse. Human Trafficking is growing because it is the easiest source of earning huge sum of money. It is one of the most lucrative illegal trades, next to arms and drug smuggling undertaken by highly
Child trafficking is a ghastly reality that stares in the face of the civilized global community. Children constitute one-third of India’s population i.e. 1.21 billion people, which means India is home to 400 million children and every sixth child in the world lives in India. Child trafficking is an unbearable social menace.
What constitutes child trafficking? Though it does not require rocket science to understand the concept, yet it is often confused with other issues like smuggling, migration, kidnapping and abduction