According to「Child and Youth Sexual Transaction Prevention Act 」process, female teenage prostitutes adjudicated entering long-term placement. They enter an unfamiliar as well as the relatively closed nature of the environment to expand their new lives. The purpose of this study is to understand the life adaptation of these teenage prostitutes in adjudicated placement, and the interaction experiences of these female prostitutes with their families in long-term placement agencies. The author used semi-structured interview outline to do qualitative research. Six girls who were placement for more than three months were selected to join this research.
The findings of the study are as following. First, girls’ background factors may relate with their joining the prostitutes work. They are alienated with their families which may push girls out to seek consolation. Those girls seek peer support, so they are vulnerable to the impact of adverse companions. They didn’t have good experience in the short-term institution which makes the girls reluctant to enter long-term placement. Second, the girls interact with the cultural values and perceptions in long-term placement, and girls adjusted different personal thoughts or beliefs to support themselves. Third is the improved interaction between girls and their families. When family members take the initiative to care for the girl in the placement, family members repairing and adjusting the interaction with each other, the girls felt warm by family attention. Family support and encouragement have the power to help girls living in agencies. Fourth part is the girls’ adaptation to life in the placement agencies. Girls interact with social environment in agencies management systems and informal norms, service provided by placement agencies; these entire interpersonal networks link the girls adapt to the institutional life. The fifth part is inner self change after resettlement and the values adjustment. Girls’ placement experiences help them come from the complex environment to simple and fulfilling lives.
