ASPECTS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF SEX WORKERS
ASPECTS OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF SEX WORKERS

Summary/Abstract: Most of the time, the community stigmatizes sex workers, which has implications for the children, who end up being marginalized due to their mother's occupation. Given the fact that the status of a sex worker requires a completely different type of skills than that of the mother, this paper started from trying to understand how women became to practice commercial sex. It pertains also to the implications that this has on them and the relationship with the family and their children. The sociological survey based on the technique of unstructured, in-depth applied face-to-face interview was used as the research method. Poverty, low wages, low levels of education that did not allow them to access well-paid jobs, coming from disorganized families, traumatic episodes of abuse, abuse, homelessness, childhood rape are causes for which women have chosen to use his body as a source of income. Although many sex workers benefit from solidarity and protection within the family, it does not have a positive opinion towards the work performed by them, but in most cases, the partner gives it all the necessary support. Most sex workers who are also mothers try to give their children everything they need. The financial protection of the child is an important factor, which most often explains the choice of women to be sex workers.

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