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Often the family is however not able to sustain the daughter and in many casesthe continued requests for money and the expectancies on the girl by the entireoriginal family nucleus prevent the woman any possibility of choice, obliging herto continue to prostitute herself for a long time even after having paid the debt.Some women interviewed posed the problem of the pressure on the family asone of the principal points that prevent many victims to consider a differentpossibility of life. This is one of the main causes of falling again into the circuit ofprostitution.“Even if you do not have the money to pay the rent, you must the same sendmoney home, it is not important for them that you can’t pay the rent. You havenothing here; you have no food in order to send money home. The exploiter is notthe pimp, is your mother and father, which is more serious (…). If you want todenounce them you are denouncing your mother (…) your mother exploits youmore than your pimp. It is slavery which starts from their family, not here, that iswhy they are used to it” (Interview Victim No.9).In addition, one of the main problems, according to associations and NGOsinterviewed, regarding this delicate phase, seems to be the relationship with moneydeveloped by the girls during the years of prostitution. The habit of seeing a lot ofmoney circulate and to think that “easy earnings” are possible is often a seriousobstacle to accepting “normal” work and the integration into a new workingsituation. This problem, which exists for the victims of exploitation of everynationality, seems to be particularly accentuated in the case of Nigerian girls, whoperhaps pay more than the others the costs of the cultural shock.One of the victims interviewed also notes a diffused concept of life “by theday” in which the principal value is that of money rather than life itself: “Now Iwork, they give me 300 Euros, what can you buy with 300 Euros? There are manyfor whom it is not enough, on the street they make a lot. It is not easy like this.Those who think of life…Many Nigerians don’t think ahead, they think of today,making themselves beautiful, eating, they don’t think about the life. Many want tostay on the street and die on the street but have money. It is like that” (InterviewVictim No.12).On the other hand some operators have underlined that, considering the smallearnings of the young Nigerian women compared to other nationalities, potentiallyit should be easier to find work which guarantees them earnings in relation to thatwhich they made for themselves out of prostitution: “Earning those sums that Itold you, 1.5-2 million, it is not impossible to find a work because they tell you if Ifind a work which permits me to earn what I earn on the street alright...if anAlbanian told me so I would say «dream it», if a Nigerian says so, there should bea possibility…” (Cooperativa Dedalus - Naples).However there is no lack of difficulties related to discriminatory attitudes onthe part of Italian employers towards Nigerian girls. The idea which emerges is thatthe exclusion operated towards them has in the first place racist roots (they areexcluded as blacks) and only at a secondary level does the prejudice relate to thenationality.