Children of the Street based Sex Workers

Almost 100 percent of the surveyed female children are working as sex workers and they don’t live mostly in any permanent places. Most of the children of the SBSW squatter with their mother in small huts live in train stations bus stations and on the streets. The CSBSW are often brought up by their relatives like-grandmothers aunts etc. The children say that they never stay with their father or his place. The Street-based sex workers want to live with their children but they prefer to give away their children to relatives as they have a financial crisis and to avoid the possible discrimination of their children from society. The husband of their mother is not the father of the child; the child is either of a former husband or of a client. 63% of the children Group 2 of Sex workers living alone and remaining surveyed CSBSW are living with the female friends or husbands/wives and on the other hand 69% of the surveyed CSBSW of Group 1 lives with their mother in the care of the mother. The CSBSW has hardly enjoyed pure drinking water and hygiene sanitation systems and most of the time they eat from the street or roadside vane.