{"id":291256,"date":"2016-09-12T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291256"},"modified":"2021-01-09T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:16:07","slug":"hunger-drives-us-teens-to-swap-sex-for-food-commit-crimes-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/hunger-drives-us-teens-to-swap-sex-for-food-commit-crimes-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger drives US teens to swap sex for food, commit crimes \u2013 research"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The US is becoming a third world country, with millions hungry and homeless while wasting the US money (50% of the US budget) to maintain the army and bases around the world. All American citizens should revolt against this!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Hunger is driving desperate US teenagers as young as 13 to search for ways to feed themselves and their families, with many resorting to crime or providing sexual favors in exchange for food and basic supplies, according to a study published Monday.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the Urban Institute, a Washington-based economic and social policy research group, paired up with\u00a0Feeding America\u00a0\u2013 a US network of food banks \u2013 in an attempt to find out\u00a0\u201chow food insecurity affects teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n

They created two focus groups \u2013 one male, one female \u2013 in the 10 poorest communities across the States, including those in major cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as in some rural towns. Researchers interviewed 193 boys and girls aged 13 to 18, all anonymously, over the course of three years \u2013 and were deeply concerned at the results.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat emerged was a portrait of impossible choices imposed upon teenagers who are forced to transition into adulthood much too quickly,\u201d\u00a0the report\u00a0states.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen faced with severe food insecurity, teens can begin to feel the weight of adult responsibilities. But like their parents, teenagers [from low-income communities] have limited jobs available to them within their communities. It\u2019s in these moments of need when some teens make the choice to help their families stock the pantry by earning money outside of the legal economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teens at all the 10 study locations told researchers numerous stories of how they themselves or some of their peers had committed minor crimes such as shoplifting, or more serious offenses such as selling drugs, in order to put food on the table. Many described\u00a0\u201cselling their body\u201d\u00a0or\u00a0\u201csex for money\u201d\u00a0as a way to get something to eat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften this takes the form of \u2018transactional dating,\u2019 meaning a teen regularly sees and has sex with someone, often a significantly older man, in exchange for meals, material goods, or cash,\u201d\u00a0researchers found.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not even dating,\u201d\u00a0a girl in Portland, Oregon, is cited by the report as saying.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ll be like, \u2018I don\u2019t really love him, but I\u2019m going to do what I have to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A boy in rural North Carolina also described the strategy, saying:\u00a0\u201cWhen you\u2019re selling your body, it\u2019s more in disguise. Like if I had sex with you, you have to buy me dinner tonight\u2026 that\u2019s how girls deal with the struggle\u2026 That\u2019s better than taking money because if they take money, they will be labeled a prostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/359097-teens-sex-food-research\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The US is becoming a third world country, with millions hungry and homeless while wasting the US money (50% of the US budget) to maintain the army and bases around the world. All American citizens should revolt against this!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":291257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}