Review : School age prostitution: an issue for children's nurses?

Abstract

■ Creating supportive environments for street working children requires children's nurses to be knowledgeable. ■ Strengthening community action requires awareness of existing groups who currently work with child prostitutes. ■ Nurses need to develop counselling skills to enable child prostitutes to make healthy choices ■ Building healthy public policies challenges nurses to mediate with politicians regarding policies which may adversely affect children. ■ A health service, re-oriented to improve the care of school age prostitutes, necessitates collaboration with health, community and charity workers.