Why girls can prefer life as a prostitute

Lois Lee, PhD, Founder & President of Children of the NIght, explains how female child prostitutes can be manipulated into thinking that they prefer life as a prostitute
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Why girls can prefer life as a prostitute

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Life with a pimp can be better than life at home because at home life is chaotic. You'll never know what time you're going to eat. If your parents are using drugs, if your parents have mental illness, you don't know what's going to happen next. There's no structure in your home. There's no specific time to do anything. You could behave well and still be punished. You could behave badly and you could be sexually abused and then rewarded. With a pimp, you know what is going to happen next. Being with a pimp is as rigid as being in the military. There is a specific set of do's and don'ts. You know what time things are going to happen and you know what behavior is expected in order to be rewarded.

Lois Lee, PhD, Founder & President of Children of the NIght, explains how female child prostitutes can be manipulated into thinking that they prefer life as a prostitute

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Lois Lee, PhD, JD

Founder & President Children of the Night

Dr. Lois Lee is a pioneer and trailblazer in rescuing America’s sex trafficked children right here in the United States.  She is the founder and president of Children of the Night and has rescued over 10,000 children from prostitution—that is more children than all of the other sex trafficking organizations combined. Since 1979 she has raised more than $40 million in private donations to support her groundbreaking programs. Diplomats come from all over the world to observe Lee's ground-breaking work at the Children of the Night home. Dr. Lee has received countless awards for her humanitarian work, most notably the prestigious President's Volunteer Action Award, presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984, and permanent memorial portrait at the Frederick Douglas Museum honors her 1994 National Caring Award. Her life story was portrayed in a CBS Movie of the Week “Children of the Night” in 1985 and she was profiled on CBS “60 Minutes” in 1987. Dr. Lee was lauded by singer/songwriter Richard Marx in his song "Children of the Night," which appeared on his 1989 Repeat Offender album.

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