Raul Lambino

There are already enabling laws which stipulate the support and protection for children in the country. What can be done is to ensure a strict implementation of the law and a mandatory compliance to the existing laws.
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Gilbert Teodoro

I support the HB 683 or the Anti-Child Exploitation Law and the HB 684 or the Anti-Child Pornography Law
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JC de los Reyes

Child pornography and trafficking victimize children. The loss of innocence of children very early in their lives can have several causes. 1) Parental dysfunction. Parents, especially if poor, would sell their children to sex predators. Often, these parents are alcoholics or drug addicts themselves, and they use their children to earn money for their own vices. 2) Absentee parents due to extreme poverty. Some parents are forced to leave their children alone in the house because of work, and the children may wander in the streets as “street children” and get victimized by beggar syndicates. 3) Lack of adult resources. Again, because of extreme poverty, parents ask their children to help in their income-generting activities like selling flowers at street corners. What is the solution? The parents may have been victims themselves when they were young, so there is a vicious cycle to be broken. This can be addressed by counseling, but it will cost in time and money. The sex predators and beggar syndicates must be prosecuted and put behind bars. They, too, may have been victims themselves when they were young, so they need rehabilitation through psychotherapy. The child victims also have to be processed, because there is a great probability that they, in turn, will become dysfunctional parents or sex abusers. Poverty can be addressed in two ways: a) demolishing corruption in government so that funds are properly channeled to vital services that can help the poor; b) generating jobs and training people in skills for the available jobs.
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