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# WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | A Mother's Burden
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/doc-world/extras/doc-world-why-slavery-selling-children-mothers-burden-clip/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:50:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T13:13:49.000Z
- Description: Mothers in India share the familial challenges that force them to make difficult choices.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Doc World, #ZZZ_Show_9465c414-dfa5-4739-85b0-2b204758369e, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_1f93d576-88a1-4a1a-84c7-6eb3840bc54b, #extra

In India, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold. Far removed from the issue of child slavery until a family maid suffers a devastating loss, filmmaker Pankaj Johar travels the country to understand and expose the ways in which poverty, illiteracy and corruption conspire to provide a breeding ground for child trafficking in the world's largest democracy.