For hundreds of years, among other injustices, it was a valid and socially acceptable business model in the Americas to buy a 13 year old girl, keep her locked

For hundreds of years, among other injustices, it was a valid and socially acceptable business model in the Americas to buy a 13 year old girl, keep her locked up and rape her repeatedly, and sell her children ( your children! ) to recoup costs. Much of our policy is just reflections of that catastrophic trauma in the descendants of all involved.