Let the numbers speak...

Sex slavery is more common today than ever before, and with the illegal traffic of weapons, the second criminal industry in the world (drug traffic is number one), it profits approximately 7 billion dollars each year. This trend has become an organized crime, it is now a borderless mega-business. People are sold and bought in any country, bringing into the game other crimes like money laundering, falsification of documents, illegal immigration, and drug dealing, among some others.

Latin-American countries have softer laws, less supervision, high levels of poverty and corruption. In many of these countries, about 40 million twelve-year-old children are sexual slaves; several of them live on the streets after being abandoned or sold by their parents, or after escaping the violence or sexual abuse in their own homes. By prostituting themselves, these children find the money they need to satisfy their primary needs and also their addictions.

Approximately, 900,000 people worldwide suffer the cruelty of human trafficking each year. The majority of those are women and children. Approximately 50,000 people come into the United States to work on strenuous physical jobs or become sex slaves, most of them are minors and 10,000 come from Latin America.
If we let the numbers speak we will find the truth that hides just beneath the surface.

- Dr. Ana Nogales

Why 'Parents Who Cheat'?

Over the thirty-three years of my clinical practice, I have heard from hundreds of clients about the painful repercussions in a child’s life when one parent betrays the other.


I felt compelled to write this book because I believe the effects of parental infidelity on children
of all ages is a profoundly important issue that has been largely ignored. While much has been written about the impact of divorce on children, and although there are numerous books on how couples can cope with the fallout of marital infidelity, little attention has been paid to how children are affected by a parent’s unfaithfulness. What are the emotional consequences for the child—young or adult— when his or her parent cheats? How can parents undergoing an infidelity
crisis help their child cope with his or her reactions? And how might adult children deal with their own parental infidelity-related issues? My objective was to write a comprehensive book for mainstream readers that would address these overarching questions.


Young children, as well as teens and young adults, may respond to their parent’s infidelity with shock, confusion, rage, cynicism, sadness, shame, or a combination of these reactions. While they have nothing to do with one parent’s decision to cheat on the other, children are often left feeling guilty, hopeless, tainted, or damaged— words they often use. As adults, children whose parents cheated are frequently unable to enjoy a healthy relationship because they are plagued by a profound lack of trust, an attraction to partners who cheat, or a proclivity toward infidelity themselves.