➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: The human cost of trafficking (Opinion)
Dallas Morning News – December 27, 2016
In a study published this week in the American Journal of Public Health, we and our colleagues compared the level and type of childhood adversity experienced by boys and girls exploited in human trafficking to the childhood adversity experienced by similar boys and girls of the same race/ethnicity, household income level, and from the same locality. This study was the first to examine the childhood histories of over 900 girls and boys detained by the Florida juvenile justice system who had each been the subject of an official abuse report and child protective investigation related to human trafficking.
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/12/27/human-cost-trafficking