Street kids [an insight into juvenile prostitution]

Summary: Filmed in Vancouver and featuring young people who already have a history of several years of prostituion, Street Kids offers a gritty, realistic look at juvenile prostitutes, male and female, and at their struggles to get off the street. The film quickly dispels the images of glamour and big money usually associated with childhood prostitution, and makes clear the continuum between being sexually abused as a child, loss of self-esteem, and turning to the streets. Without preaching or patronizing, Streek Kids shows the positive efforts of child-care workers in a Vancouver group home, and suggests that for juvenile prostitutes there is a way out, difficult though it may be. A provocative discussion starter for teenage audiences, concerned parents and social service and justice personnel.