What Is Human Trafficking A Multifaceted Threat

The Under Estimated Threat

The first time I heard the topic of human trafficking I thought this simply cannot be happening, and if it did, how come no one including myself knew about it. It happened when my family and I were stationed at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany back in 2010. as a parent of three boys and a girl I wanted to know more about it to educate my self, and become more aware of what human trafficking was. I did not want to just look away as many of my friends did. Human trafficking is not smuggling, or volunteer prostitution that only happens overseas as most Americans think. It is the recruitment, transportation, transfer and receipt of people by the use of force, threat and abuse of power. Human trafficking is a
Often these victims are drugged on a daily basis, with the purpose of keeping them calm, as makes it easier for the traffickers to take full advantage of them. Keeping them drugged turns into addicts, once addicted is easy to control them, and they keep coming back for more. Their desires to escape is decreased, and even when not addicted to drugs, victims are completely cut off from their families, and their support structure. They lose faith in everything and are hopelessness of the situation and suffer alone. This is a huge epidemic where these acts endanger our children privileges and rights of living in a free nation. Our children safety and security are being compromised. We must act now to educate our youth and teach them how to identify techniques used by these predators and traffickers. Teach them to be vigilant and on the look out. Our message is that this can happened to anyone anywhere in our
Some of the challenges can be us the parents, some will criticize the victims and really become confused with the topic, and how can they tell if is prostitution. Giving the exact statistics on human trafficking to the public it is very difficult, as law enforcement struggle with identifying the cases, not because the lack of knowledge but because sometimes the victims become embarrassed and are unwilling to seek help for the fear of being criticized and judged by the public. The human trafficking topic can also be too strong for parents, never less their children, and they may choose not to become aware of it. High schools and colleges might be faced with their policies getting in the way for teaching such a strong topic. The message is very shocking and descriptive and this can be very alarming for parents, teachers and school officials as they might not be quite ready for this. However, delivering the topic of human trafficking should be strong, shocking, as there is no other way to do it. There is no room for sugar coating, it must be delivered