xandreu wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:11 am The sad truth is that wherever there's poverty, there will always be people willing to exploit it for their own ends. Whether people are looking for casual sex with children or to buy actual human beings as if they were items on a shop shelf. This has always and will always be the case. Catching the imprisoning the people who do this sort of thing doesn't really solve the problem in the long term. Tens of thousands have been caught and imprisoned but it's still as big an issue as it ever was. There are still areas of the world where this type of thing still goes on. And it's almost always in the same places you find poverty.

It's easy to judge and condemn someone for selling their child, but until you've had to live on a dollar a day, spending all night walking the streets looking through other people's rubbish for something that you might be able to sell for 100 riel, I think it's too easy to just shake your head and tut at the people who sell their offspring. I can't think of anything more heartbreaking than deciding to sell your own child, and I don't for a minute believe that these people make a decision like this lightly.

In short, this problem will never be solved while people are still living in abject poverty. Wherever in the world that may be.

davegorman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:16 pm Young westerners still believe (in 2018) that sexpats pick up children at that now shut riverside area in PP (forgot the name. Viet kids I think) or down the beach at SIhanoukville and any old westerner with kids is obviously a pedophile.

Why? Because they get feeded it by charities and media with agendas.

explorer wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:55 am

davegorman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:16 pm westerners still believe ... any old westerner with kids is obviously a pedophile.

There is a western man with a young daughter, who has been stopped by do-gooders and asked what he is doing with a young girl. It is sad that people assume the worst when they dont know somebody.