Views aspirations and emotional maturity of commercially sexually exploited teenage girls
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2002-06-01
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Vasantrao Naik Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani
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One hundred commercially sexually exploited teenage girls
were randomly selected from Parbhani town of Marathwada for the study.
Out of the hundred, 50 teepage girls were the first generation entered the
trade of commercial sex and the remaining 50 were the daughters of
commercial sex workers. The data pertaining to the study were collected by
personally interviewing them and also administering the emotional maturity
scale. All the CSE teenage girls of the second generation and 50 percent
CSE teenage girls of the first generation hailed from slum and rural areas
respectively. Poverty, marital problems and parental exploitation were the
major causes for these girls for entering the trade of commercial sex. Almost
all the CSE teenage girls in both the generations viewed the trade of
commercial sex as an indecent & immoral trade and opined that no girl or
woman should take it up. Majority of the teenage girls in both the groups
regretted for being in the trade of commercial sex for the reasons of not
getting a chance to get married and to lead normal life and for feeling lonely
& insecured for getting detached from their families and society at large.
Considerably a higher percentage of the sample girls in both the generations
assessed to be emotionally unstable. Income, cohabiting and education had
positive influence on emotional maturity of the CSE sample girls of both the
generations. About 60 - 70 percent of the CSE teenage girls of both the
generations became addicted to one or other substance due to the anxiety
mainly built up from their financial crisis. Majority of the sample girls in
both the generations aspired to lead normal & married life and expected
from government a lot of welfare services for the CSE women & children
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