Re:India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find c...
by ilyt on Thursday July 20, 2023 @11:58AM
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I didn't say it damages anything; I said it will be pretty hard talk to have and hard to manage situation, especially if it somehow leaks to the other kids, kids are cruel. And things that are hard can go bad easily.
"But the other job earning less money would be worse for kid!" is extremely one-dimensional view on that
And I'm not sure how your weird rant about child services is even related to that
Re:India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find c...
by candiodari on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:35PM
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> And I'm not sure how your weird rant about child services is even related to that
That's the only alternative you/society offers for these children. So that's what you should compare to. I get that you don't want to do that, because it totally demolishes your argument, but it still is the only alternative.
Except ... what determines if this is better or worse is the alternative. If you're really after the welfare of the child, what determines your position is the alternative ... What damages the child more? Taking the child away, in India, leads to this:
https://borgenproject.org/orphans-in-india/
So no, a parent who's a sex worker is a LOT better. And that should be the basis for your moral position. It's all well and good to define an ideal and then blame people for not attaining perfection ... but of course we'd all be in jail if that's how we actually work.
You want to change sex work? Offer these people some better options. And if you can't do that, for whatever reason, throwing the child into child services IS NOT a good second option.
And I would argue this applies to pretty much every country in the world, including the US. The situation of orphans may not be quite as bad as in India, it's certainly not better than living with (very) suboptimal parents.
And, frankly, that should be the only concern.