{"id":2995,"date":"2010-03-24T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:06:42","slug":"human-trafficking-educate-yourself-and-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/human-trafficking-educate-yourself-and-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Trafficking&#8230; educate yourself and your family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed the red &#8220;Redeemed&#8221; image to the right of my sidebar lately.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krististephens.com\/redeemed\" target=\"_blank\">series of articles<\/a> my bloggy friend Kristi Stephens is running in conjunction with Women at Risk, International to educate all of us on human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading her posts and, to be honest, quite disgusted with what I have learned.<\/p>\n<p>How often young girls are sold into sexual slavery shocked me. And it is not just abroad or in &#8216;dirty,&#8217; poor\u00a0 places. Today&#8217;s post talks about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.krististephens.com\/2010\/03\/what-creeps-around.html\" target=\"_blank\"> trafficking in America<\/a> and mentions that, according the the FBI, <strong>100,000 girls, ages 9-19, are trafficked in commercial sexual  exploitation in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Woah, that is shocking. And then the post goes on to list the statistics in places like Ohio and Georgia&#8230; not just low-income, high-profile places.<\/p>\n<p>This is a real problem that exists in our cities and towns, people. It needs to be addressed and stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Please make time to stop by Kristi&#8217;s blog soon and read her series&#8230; But be prepared for how it might impact you.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed the red &#8220;Redeemed&#8221; image to the right of my sidebar lately. It&#8217;s a link to a series of articles my bloggy friend Kristi Stephens is running in conjunction with Women at Risk, International to educate all of us on human trafficking. I&#8217;ve been reading her posts and, to be honest, quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}