TY  - JOUR
T1  - Childhood Abuse among Children Involved in Prostitution in Malaysia
AU - Lukman, Z.M. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 6
SP  - 567
EP  - 572
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2009.567.572
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2009.567.572
KW  - Childhood
KW  -exploitation
KW  -child prostitution
KW  -abuse
KW  -emotional
KW  -physical
KW  -sexual
KW  -Malaysia
AB  - The current study is aim to investigate the link between childhood abuse and the involvement of children in prostitution. Two methods of data collection were used in this study; that is semi-structured interview and narrative interview. Altogether, 63 young women safeguarded from prostitution in two rehabilitation centres participated in this study as respondents. The findings suggest that the vast majority of prostituted young women in this sample are being emotionally and physically abused and half of them are being sexually abused during childhood before they were drawn into prostitution. Around 67% of respondents were found to have suffered from multiple abuse types. Furthermore, the majority of respondents (78.8%) did suffer from multiple negative feelings like feel hurt and angry, depressed, disowned by the family, dirty, useless and wanting revenge.
ER  -