The situation is only made worse by illegalization. It means that it's harder for them to get healthcare, or to seek the help of the law.

Which is what the government should re-evaluate. Clearly, if the Plan A isn't working, they should consider a Plan B, C, D and so forth. But hand-in-hand with the rest of the society, a blind eye method is used.

Sex workers aren't even always uneducated. In America, some of them are even highly educated.

We have this view of sex work as dirty, and the sex workers as poor people whose only option is the sex trade. Reality is often far different than the visions we paint. In this case, that vision is based on our prejudice.

I do agree. It's why I listed other stuff after. I only put the education in the fore because it's true for most in third world countries where I live in. And in the Philippines, the emphasis in education being a must is almost equivalent to breathing. There are college students who engage in escort services simply to put themselves through college.

But condemn them or not, we should not condemn the children.

No, we shouldn't. At all. It's a steep battle to change the mindset of people about that especially in more conservative countries.

I don't think they even necessarily need one targeting them. Just one that isn't discriminatory.

I think there isn't one targeting them because they are being discriminated against. If the children who aren't at fault are suffering through the stigma of being related to a sex worker, it's not a far-fetched notion that the sex workers themselves are in the middle of it.