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drug problems. In Pakistan, in the early eighties, drug use
was negligible but by the nineties the number of drug users
had jumped to 1.5 million. 4
Prostitution, another source of income for the clan, is
also on the rise as a form of immorality. Today, in many coun-
tries across the world, children, girls as well as boys, are

forced by their own families into prostitution for money.
Instead of the world uniting to save these children from
being used as sex objects at an age when they need to be
taken care of and protected, the countries where child prosti-

tution is widespread become sought-after destinations for
tourists. In 1995, 60% of the Thai government's budget was fi-
nanced by prostitution and the number of prostitutes in India
was 8 million. Every year huge numbers of sex tourists from
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around the world flood these parts of the world for this rea-
son. It is estimated that there are 100,000 child prostitutes in

the US and the penitentiaries are home to 300,000-600,000
children convicted of prostitution. It is further estimated that
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2 million youth sleep rough on the streets in the US and that
the majority resort to prostitution. Accordingly, fornication
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is on the rise too, adultery is commonplace and children born

outside wedlock constitute a serious social problem.
Furthermore, other important indicators of social degen-
eration like bribery, corruption, loan-sharking, fraud, waste-
fulness and the collapse of the justice system are backed by
the clan. In some countries, this rot can reach a stage where
the whole system, including the country's leadership, comes

under the total control of the clan. Dominance over the legis-
lature as well as law-enforcement agencies is common for the