Silent cry of dying childhood and children of street based sex workers in Dhaka city, Bangladesh

Many female sex workers in Bangladesh get pregnant willingly or even unknowingly but face dire situation raising the child. Children of the female sex workers in Bangladesh are at risk of many significant threats to their health and wellbeing. While some of these problems are shared with other children of similar social and economic circumstances in Bangladesh, children of sex workers experience a range of problems due to the social stigma and threats associated with their mother’s sex work and the resulting discrimination. Very limited studies have been under taken to bring to light the life of these children. The current study tries to depict the life of the street based sex workers’ children in Bangladesh.