324). A restavec is forced to develop an "adult complex", performing tasks that would normally be done by an adult, and other lasting psychological and physical effects on a restavec are serious, but perhaps the most serious is the loss of his childhood. Extreme poverty in Haiti creates an opportunity for child slavery. Thousands of Haitian children suffer mental and physical abuse every day because the world continually ignores the issue of restavecs in Haiti. Until the world is able to make efforts to recognize the problem of child slavery in Haiti, the epidemic of restavecs will continue and thousands of children will be victims of this slavery.