Raising the issue of China's troubled teens
By Xie Chuanjiao | China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-07 07:39
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A drug addict looks out of a window at the Xinkaipu Re-education Through Labor Center in central China's Hunan province on June 19, 2007. The nation's biggest cities have seen a sharp rise in the number of crimes committed by children of migrant workers. Fu Zhiyong |
Their parents have taken them miles from their hometowns as they chase work and have no money to put them into school, leaving them to survive on the streets and become easy prey for small-time crooks looking to expand their empire. So, is it any wonder children of migrant workers are behind the majority of minor crimes in China's biggest cities?
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