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Dragomus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The line of trafficking is crossed where the person is wholly dependant on the other, ie. they hold/control your passport/means of identification and finances plus are your only means of a roof over your head in an unknown area.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
so … why isn’t living with your parents as a teenager considered “human trafficking” then?
macji@pawb.social 5 days ago
Because teenagers are dependants and the parents are responsible for their wellbeing. Since humans wish to and need to reproduce, society has ultimately decided (for better or worse) that the best way to protect everyone is to make children the responsibility of their parents until they are adults. The adults made the decision to have a child, and so that child is their responsibility until they child can be responsible for themselves.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 days ago
Because that would be silly.
vvilld@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Because society isn’t structured around proscriptive definitions. Just because you can craft a definition of human trafficking which sounds similar to a normal parent/child relationship doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.