Ninety-six percent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 percent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 percent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 percent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one percent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five percent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.)

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide