Teen girls engage in 'paid dating' for spare cash(2)

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Han Konglin pointed out that the phenomenon has exposed weaknesses in social morality education concerning both families and schools. "That guardians lack communication with their children, spoil them or rough them up has led to the failure of family education, which has pushed kids onto the wrong path.

According to China Newsweek, one of the 20 girls involved in the recent case in Shanghai came from a divorced family, one was a foster child, and three had been mollycoddled or suffered from serious verbal abuse.

Tong Xiaojun suggested that China should establish a service team for children and teenagers to jointly promote education with families and schools in a bid to prevent more girls from going astray.

Prostitution has been illegal in Japan since 1958, and a new law that prohibits underage people from practicing prostitution was unveiled in 1999. Taiwan also promulgated a regulation in 1995 aiming to tackle social problems related to prostitution. However, currently in the Chinese mainland the term "compensated dating" is not even among related laws, reported the China Newsweek.