Talk:Born into Brothels

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merged with & redirecting to Born into brothels. older revision is at Talk:Born_into_Brothels/older_revision. pamri 04:46, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] References???

Please give references for the following comment:

"The portrayal of the children's mothers as simply wanting the girls to go into prostitution, or as not caring for their children conflicts with much research, which shows that sex workers' major concern is that their children should have a better life than their own."

This is not a crusade for the salvation of children, only one simpathetic americans attempt to make the difference with a few, and she hardly succeeds with plenty of dedication, effort and money on her part.

These children are given a one in a billion chance of getting a future and only 3 could take advantage of it, and one because she ran away from home. The documentary cannot be blamed for potraying the reality faced by THESE children, their spitefull parents should have ensured that the opportunities were taken.

They aren no better than paedophiles, grandmas and aunts included.Cgonzalezdelhoyo 10:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some questionable assertions

"The portrayal of the children's mothers as simply wanting the girls to go into prostitution, or as not caring for their children conflicts with much research, which shows that sex workers' major concern is that their children should have a better life than their own."

One problem with that. It isn't true. With the exception of one girl, Suchitra, whose aunt wanted her to go into prostitution, all the parents did want their kids lives to improve. One could provide specific scenes (e.g., the 3 mothers reviewing the girls' school). In the Charlie Rose interview on the DVD, Zana Briski said that it was the parents of the kids who approached her to help them improve their lives.

"The documentary itself acknowledges that many of those 'saved' from the red light district and put into boarding school had left the school and returned to their families before long."

In the Reconnection feature, all of them went to school and none of the children highlighted in the film actually went "in the line", as they said. Sure, some chose to stay at home, but even India has compulsory education. They were all attending school. Suchitra even ended up planning to go to vocational school instead of being forced to go into prostitution.

I would really, really like to see some references to back up the assertions in this paragraph.

TNaran

[edit] ick

"On the other hand, these spirited, creative, energetic children cannot help but be inspiring and heart-warming to Western audiences. A hopeful story of upliftment out of dire poverty, of triumph over adversity, of one woman's strenuous and eventually successful efforts to offer poor children educational experiences they could never have had without her help - these are stories that allow us to engage with the profound suffering of an unequal world without despairing that nothing can be done."

This paragraph is among the worst I've ever read on Wikipedia. Written in first person, completely devoid of NPOV.

I'm not even sure what to replace this glurge with. I'm going to go ahead and delete it.

66.77.144.5 21:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)