US Child Prostitution Epidemic

Child Prostitution has became a rising epidemic in the US, the program NOW on PBS visits Atlanta, Georgia to see how one American city is handling the tragic phenomenon of child prostitution. It is one of 27 American cities where the problem seems to be spinning out of control.

This is not just girls on the street, but is a growing Internet business; is just one of the many growing immoral aspects occurring within the US.

While any type of relations with a child is a felony in the US, it has fallen to the wayside as immorality continues to grow beyond what is acceptable within any society; which also alcoholism and the rampant drug industry are still in runaway proportions, inter mixed with the prostitution problem.

"[The child prostitutes are] ten or 11 years old, and the age is getting lower. We're not talking about 17 and 18 and 19 year old's, although we could," Atlanta's Mayor Franklin says.

From billboards, adult bookstores, to every facet form of advertising is being promoted that this type of behavior is being perpetrated that any type of illicit immorality is acceptable and while women are usually targeted with this type of situation; children are now the growing targets, which previously within some US court cases of men molesting babies, who later many died.

Not just Child Prostitution, but the whole foundation of morality has crumbled and immoralty within the US is spinning out of control.