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UK Brothel Revenue
In the UK brothel owners can make up to £1 million per annum, with women being sold for around £8,000 - over 42 times the average salary in the UK. What's your salary?...
While you were working for a living...
The vast amounts made in the global prostitution industry goes directly into the hands of pimps, traffickers and brothel owners....
The UK Sex Industry
In 2005, the UK sex industry was worth an estimated £1 billion. Since then the growth has been exponential....
Prostitutes on Crack
British Home Office research found that over 90% of street prostitutes take heroin or crack cocaine....
Global Pornography Revenue
In 2006, worldwide pornography revenue was $97.06 billion. Of that, approximately $13 billion was in the United States....
Not $1. Not $10. But $3,075. Every second.
Every second, $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography, and every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is made in the United States....
Internet Pornography
There are 4.2 million pornographic websites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily pornographic search engine requests....
A World Fit For Children?
According to the Internet Filter Review (2006), the file-sharing network Gnutella has 116,000 daily "child pornography" requests....
Child Porn: A Booming Business
Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online. Between 2004 and 2006 the number of child abuse domains increased 200%....
Child Porn & Child Abuse
In a study of arrested child pornography possessors, 40% had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography....
Global Child Porn Revenue
By 2005, child pornography had become a $3 billion annual global industry. Since then its growth has continued to be exponential....
Mobile Porn Revenue
In 2005, worldwide revenue from mobile phone pornography rose to $1 billion and was expected to increase by at least three times that number within a few years. Where are we now?
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1 Million Children Per Year
UNICEF reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year, and some 30 million children have lost their childhood through sexual exploitation over the past 30 years.
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How Prostitutes Die
In a US study of almost 2,000 prostitutes followed over a 30-year period, by far the most common causes of death were homicide, suicide, drug and alcohol related problems, HIV infection and accidents - in that order.
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Child Prostitutes
According to the US Department of Justice, studies indicate that child prostitutes 'serve' between two and thirty 'clients' per week. That's 100 to 1500 'clients' per year, per child.
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Human Trafficking
Every year, upwards of $19 billion is generated on the street from illegal human trafficking. Who gets this money and what do they do with it?
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'Adult'-Film Industry
The 'adult'-film industry is bigger than ever. In 2003 it was making around 6,000 movies a year and grossing more than $4 billion - roughly as much as the US National Football League....

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Quick Facts 2 - Leaflet

Quick Facts 2 Most young people aspire to marriage. In one survey, 92% of 15-year-olds said they wanted to marry one day.... Married people are twice as likely to be “happy” with life and less than half as likely to be “not to happy” compared to either single, cohabiting, separated, divorced or widowed people....

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Most young people aspire to marriage. In one survey, 92% of 15-year-olds said they wanted to marry one day
Family Education Trust, “Sex Under Sixteen”

Married people are twice as likely to be “happy” with life and less than half as likely to be “not to happy” compared to either single, cohabiting, separated, divorced or widowed people
Waite & Gallagher, “The Case for Marriage”

Mental health improves consistently and substantially after marriage and deteroriates substantially after divorce or separation. These are effects of marriage and divorce and not because healthy people marry and unhealthy people divorce
Marks & Lambert, “Marital Status Continuity and Change Among Young and Midlife Adults: Longitudinal Effects on Psychological Well-Being”

Children in single parent households are twice as likely to be unhappy, have low self-esteem, or have mental health problems, even after taking demographic factors into account
Cockett & Tripp, “The Exeter Family Study: Family Breakdown and Its Impact on Children”

Single mothers, whether well-educated or not, are 3-4 times more likely to live in poverty than married mothers
McLanahan & Sandefur, “Growing Up With a Single Parent...”

UK single parents are 8 times as likely to be out of work and 12 times as likely to receive income support
Office of National Statistics, “Work and Worklessness Among Households” (2001)

In the UK, divorced men aged 20-60 have 70%-100% higher mortality rates. Divorced women over the age of 25 have 35%-58% higher mortality rates
Office of National Statistics, “Mortality Statistics...” (2001)

In 2000, family breakdown was costing Great Britain £15 billion a year
FMI Report, “The Cost of Family Breakdown”

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