His Mom is a Pimp
By bingskee
@bingskee (5234)
Philippines
December 20, 2011 7:34am CST
Heard about this concern on the radio.
A 20-yr old son discovered that his mom is a pimp, or a flesh-peddler. The mom is the breadwinner. I was not sure if she is a single mom because the discussion with an expert was already ongoing when I turned on the radio. The expert mentioned 3 things:
1. acceptance
2. talk with mom
3. lead mom to spirituality or to God
As I was trying to put myself on his shoes, I struggled about the thought of acceptance. I would find it hard to just let the whole thing be and accept it just like that. I just would not find it easy to listen to the mom's reason that it is the easiest way for her to earn money fast for her children. I could accept probably that it is a situation I was not aware of that is why I was not able to do something to prevent it. But I could not definitely accept that it is the only resource left. It sounded like the mom is just lazy to do other physically challenging work.
What do you think about this?
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19 responses
@coco275 (45)
• United States
20 Dec 11
I hear your concern but, I wouldn't be so quick to judge by calling the mom lazy. Maybe this is all she know to do because maybe, she was raised in this enviroment. I don't agree with this profession which is the oldest profession in the world and legal in some states. If it's legal and the ladies are over 21 years old adults, who am i to say what she can or cannot do. Let me hear your thoughts?
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
20 Dec 11
People are driven to such business mostly out of compulsion of circumstances. If a woman is having no money to feed her children and no proper help from her husband--she will be left with only option to resort to such a trade.
Putting myself in that boy's position -- have to accept because there is no other way for the lady to support the family.
Other jobs like office work, cleaning work, sales work etc, are not available that easily. Even in this trade there are many women who cannot get adequate money while some in the top echelons of society mint money. I think it is due to fate.
Msny things are beyond our comprehension and control.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
hello, ravisivan. this case might look like incomprehensible and uncontrollable at first. i can understand that it is not an easy situation to be left alone with the responsibility of rearing children and at the same time try to survive. perhaps during the first times, it was not easy for her so she grabbed the opportunity of being a pimp because money is easy. but with the many years in her life as a pimp, i bet she had earned a lot of money because it seems that she looks at pimping as easy way to have money. she could have saved money to get out of the situation and look for another way to earn. but she chose to stay in her profession that victimize young girls and ruin their lives. it appeared to me as 'lazy' way because she had gotten used to it, and loved it.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
27 Dec 11
bingskee: interesting. The pain of hunger will be known only to a person who has suffered it. The circumstances she was pushed into this profession assuming they necessitated and she took it.
After this no getting out of the rut. Similar to getting into drinking it is highly impossible for a man to come out of it. Our argument that she could have saved money -- in my view is theoretical. Economics says we spend depending on our earnings and our desire to earn also increases depending on our earning capacity. After some stage methods are forgotten.
True her putting other young girls into difficulties is not to be appreciated. But where is the scope for escaping it. a fellow taken to stealing has to end there only mostly. a person who has taken a sword will also die out of a wound from sword.
Do not think I am supporting wrong methods. Touch wood, as on date I am well placed financially and I do not aspire to do any wrong deeds. But a person suffering for food cannot think of right or wrong while taking up a profession and continuing it.
@vandana7 (100615)
• India
28 Dec 11
I am one who has known hunger..but since I didnt have children I could survive without compromising on values. With children, it does become difficult I suppose. Perhaps laws should be about having child after a specific age and specific financial position. That way such compromises would not be easy.
@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
4 Mar 12
I think if i was the son it will really hard for me to accept the real fact but if he really love her mom he must understand her mom and he must also think that his mom only doing that because her mom want to give all the things that can make him have a better life. I think all of mom want to give what is the best for his son and that is the way that her mom know how to earn money. But he must also talk to his mom so her can answer him the real reason. Talking to his mom is the best.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
21 Dec 11
Oh yes I dont think I could accept my mom doing that for a living at all. I can understand that she did what she need to do for me and my family but still I don't think I could get my head around it at all.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
9 Jan 12
I love my daughter but I'm not stupid enough to do stupid crimes where I can go to jail because I live my daughter. Good parents don't do crimes where they can't see there family because they are behind bars.
@tatzkie23 (770)
• Philippines
13 Jan 12
I don't know what i do if i knew my mom is a pimp. Acceptance would be really hard for me. She do that for a living, and to give something to her family. Well, i think there are still other choices or job she could find. A reason that it is the easiest way to earn money is not reasonable at all. But i can't blame her, maybe she was not able to finish her study, that's why it's hard for her to find a real good job. And she found out that pimping is easy money. Well, I cannot do anything about that mother. Maybe her son can ask some social service in their place, and ask for other option to work.
@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
20 Dec 11
This is the oldest trade in the world and it has existed since we don't know when... Not everyone do it for pleasure... In fact, almost everyone does it due to circumstances... Acceptance is most tough.. The innermost mind would always rebel n revolt against the idea... The further two steps are out of question, as the first one will never be true...
I feel sorry for the kid who got to know this... It is better to keep some facts hidden...
@elshaddai123 (3981)
• Kottayam, India
23 Dec 11
it is a great blow to her child, but this is not only the work she can do,some good counseling will do any good to her, since we can"t imagine how deep she has gone ??
@lampar (7584)
• United States
27 Dec 11
A single mom need to feed her child and herself, if she doens't have any works available to her, turning to flesh trade to make a living is out of desperation, after all, she is doing the pimping, not as a hooker. At the end of the day, she need money to live and survive, no matter what are the moral value of some pretentious high society folks may have, she is still a good mother as far as i am concerned that live up to her parental responsibility to her children, when ther eis no other recourse or opportunity around, turning to flesh trade may well provide a chance for her to survive in this cold cruel world where money run everything in our life.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
hello, lampar.
i have to say i can understand more the hookers than the pimp. in every situation, i try to put myself in it. what if my child is put in a situation where he or she becomes a victim of these pimps? there is a big, big responsibility that is on their shoulders. some of the victims are even very young, and to take advantage of their youth, innocence, situation, ignorance, etc, to make money out of them is truly unacceptable.
there is still a chance for her to get out of the situation. she has to consider not the society but what her children feels. if she truly cares, and loves them, she would consider other options. as the saying goes, if there is a will, there is a way. if one is unwilling, he or she uses all the reasons available.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
22 Dec 11
Most of those people doing such acts of wickedness are trying to explain to the people behind them that their actions is right and good. Because that is the only way to make easy money...their reasons is clearly wrong because there are many ways to make money which is clean and not making anyone to be broken down because of them...
They love that works because as others say it is easy and also they enjoy...I don't agree with what those people alibi to make money. It's a kind of wickedness and laziness I think
@vandana7 (100615)
• India
22 Dec 11
You have to be in that situation to understand the dilemma. It is criminal occupation - undoubtedly. But it is not as if the child knew all along. Therefore, he has developed affections and regard for the person. If he turns her in, he has to sort of amputate part of his life. If he is the only child - he has had it. He would be all alone in the world! Hard decision thrust on a 20 years old.
Now, analysis of the situation..perhaps she is too aged to have been in that profession hersself. Perhaps she couldnt find the right work even when she tried. Perhaps she tried another profession, and couldnt manage home and work because of kid/s. Perhaps, it was at the profession that she was forced into this line and she couldnt escape it. I wouldnt be so fast in condemning a lady as lazy, unless I knew her to be lazy or simply somebody who is unwilling to do physically challenging work. Generally, people try to remain respectable, if not for themselves, at least for their children.
Finally, my call on this is - put it all behind - move to another part of the world, and start working hard so that mother does not have to take up such thing again. By sending the mother to prison he would be doing himself no favors, as the world would tease him and his conscience would trouble him. An unhappy man he would be. And may be he would drink and make others unhappy too. His duty in this case is to be grateful first, more so because she is now aged. If he can, he should help the women whose lives have been spoiled because of whatever his mother did, duly apologising for the past. Forgiveness will come. Sending mother to prison will not repair their lives, will it?
@globaldoc (858)
• Philippines
25 Dec 11
This is really a very sad story to know. Somewhere I am sure that the mom did not want to do this. However, I guess that it was out of financial difficulties that she was forced to do this. However, the law is the law. Sooner or later, the law has to catch up on her. That is the sad reality of life. I wish things would go better.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
hi, globaldoc. i think this is what worries the child, that the law would catch up on her one day.
the times are difficult so there is nothing left for us to understand but she has to leave her job now and find another as her children seem to hate the idea and not accept the fact that their mother is a pimp.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
20 Dec 11
Maybe if his mom is crippled it would be understandable that she finds that job much easier in order to support her family. But if she is really healthy then she have the options of looking for a proper job. Or as you say physical jobs that other moms have been doing to feed her family and send their kids to school.
Maybe the mom tried other job too but still finds it very easy to earn and do this job rather than accepting laundry or working in a factory. Because alll she needs to do is pimp young ladies to men and she'll get her money right away. I think it will be hard to talk to mom coz they might end up arguing. But then again, if he'll be able to talk to her in a nice way I think he will be able to guide her back to goodness. Honestly, I don't know how I would deal with it if I am in his shoes. You know some moms thinks they're always right.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
some adults think like they know everything, some people have calloused heart that they could not accept that what they do is wrong. it will be a difficult job to persuade the mom to leave the kind of job she has because she might be living with the belief that she is doing the right thing for her children.
@early3 (60)
• Philippines
21 Dec 11
In this time and age nobody seems to care what kind of a job you have as long as you can feed your family. If the mom has no other means to be employed in a decent way maybe she has no other alternative but to do so.
Irregardless of any situation she was into. The most important thing for her was how to support and feed her children to live.
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
•
20 Dec 11
To be honest - if it were me - I'd turn her in. Accepting it and "leading her to spirituality" is a pathetic response to a criminal occupation that takes advantage of people in difficulty (usually). I'd probably tell her to get a proper job first but, if she didn't, I'd definitely inform on her. That's not the kind of mother I'd want, thank you.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
28 Dec 11
hi, spike! that is a nice info. thank you.
unfortunately, Philippine families get on by having each family member around. it will always pain the children to be away from the family unit, especially to their parents. i guess this is cultural. each member will stick around and try very hard to solve a problem for the family to be complete.
even if the 20 year old stops in his studies and work, i think, without doubts, that he will choose to be with his family though it would be hurting for him to see his mother in that situation. the act of seeking advice is his way of 'saving' the mother.
@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
20 Dec 11
I think without knowing the whole situation it is difficult to tell. It may very well be that she is lazy as you said. But there is more likely much deeper stuff that caused her to embrace that lifestyle. There is no telling what she went through when she was younger that brought her to this point. She may not know how to get out - or she may have no desire to as she is making a "good living" in her own eyes. My students used to ask me why they needed an education when they could make my monthly salary in one night selling on the streets....very sad.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
you are probably right in saying that without knowing the whole situation, it is difficult to tell. but i still consider it as a 'lazy' individual's job given its nature and the amount of effort one needs to exert doing it.
as to not knowing how to get out, without the desire, it is impossible for her to do so. even with people telling her how her business is wrong if she does not want to get out of it then nothing will change.
@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
20 Dec 11
Hello bingskee,
Its not easy for the boy to accept his mother the way she is but he must try to understand under what circumstances she did it.May be when he understands it he would be able to accept her comfortably.I know a woman can't do it for her own wish it she does it when all other options for earning money for her gets failed.
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Dec 11
To me I would think she does this due to a desperate situation. I do not think people just wake up and decide to do something like this. At first it is probably because of bad situations and it continues due to addiction to making good money fast. I think most people would get out of it if there financial situation got better due to a better job. Right now in these economic times there are not many jobs out there so if her kids need anything this is probably all she knows to do...
@wulania (1524)
• Indonesia
20 Dec 11
it is one the most hardest questions to answer. if i were your friend, i dont what i have to do. but i have to talk personally to my mom. whtever she does, she is my mom. i have to know the reason why she picks up pimp as her job. and we have to get a final solution, long term, not one day solution. regard