According the to the State Department’s latest report on modern slavery, 12 million people around the world are trapped in some form of slavery, including forced labor, bonded labor and forced prostitution. Of course, media reports focus only on forced prostitution, which accounts for only about 10% of modern slavery, ignoring others – mostly men – who are enslaved for their labor.
It is probably the cavalier attitude toward the enslavement of men that perpetuates the barbaric practice, which is arguably officially condoned by judicial systems of Anglosphere countries through family law court orders.
The hypocrisy of a country that presumes to condemn slavery when it forces millions of men to pay their ex-wives under threat of imprisonment should not be lost on any man who has been divorced and lost his children.
The US alimony and child support system could fairly be described as debt bondage, in that men are often saddled with payments they cannot meet, and then face increasing restrictions on their freedom of movement, and finally face real imprisonment for debts they cannot afford to repay. It may be that, under the bonded labor category of slavery, the United States enslaves more people than any other country on earth.
