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An Unholy Alliance: The Connection Between Foster Care And Human Trafficking, Michelle R. Lillie
An Unholy Alliance: The Connection Between Foster Care And Human Trafficking, Michelle R. Lillie
Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking 2013
It is general knowledge within the anti-trafficking community that children facing abuse, neglect and parental substance abuse are at the greatest risk for human trafficking. Yet very little research has connected these same abused and neglected children that are currently in foster care with human trafficking. This paper examines the connection between foster care and human trafficking in the United States with special emphasis on sex trafficking. Within the human trafficking literature there is a very large gap regarding foster care and wards of the state. Very little statistical data are available on the prevalence of foster care children involved …