Cannot receive enough care from family

Most of the juveniles said that their family knew about the activities they had participated in such as going to internet café, riding motorbike or hanging out with friends and not going to school. However, the juveniles chose not to tell their family about activities such as using drugs, robbery or going to Ba Chia Chiang troupe.

Although their family knew about the activities they were doing or the friends they were hanging out with. Most of their family did not care too much about what they did and some even approved their action and behavior. This cause the juveniles felt free to participate in deviant leisure without any restriction.

A1 said that his family did not know that he was helping the Ba Chia Chiang troupe and that he stole motorbikes. His mother only knew that he often went to the internet café. He would lie to his mother about it. However, there was no one to care about him anymore after she passed away.

家人都不知道我去八家將幫忙廟會和偷車這些事情，網咖媽媽知道，其他的 壞事就都不知道了。我就騙媽媽說朋友要聚餐，不然就是學校同學找。這樣。

像媽媽過世了，現在家人也沒有人知道我在這裡，我爸和我媽早就離婚了，

媽媽就帶著我們就離開旗山了。我也不知道我爸爸他現在在哪裡。我哥哥和 姐姐現在也都沒有聯絡了。所以我媽媽去世之後就沒有人管我了。(A1) Being different from A1, D1’s family knew that he went to Ba Chia Chiang troupe, but they did not say anything about it. However, his family was very angry after they found out that D1 got caught while using drugs.

我去廟會，跳八家將，家人知道阿。他們也沒說什麼，也不會管。吸毒是後 面才知道的。我被抓之後才知道的。他們知道我吸毒就一直罵…我爸媽喔，

就有時候發瘋，有時候會打人，會突然打過來。我就跑阿…也沒有想要跑到 哪裡，就是亂跑。(D1)

One of the reasons that F1 was sent to diversion was because he committed a crime against sexual autonomy. During the interview F1 said that that once his mother walked into the house and found him drunk and was having sexual intercourse with a girl at home. However, his mother did not stop him but only asked him to quiet down. F1 said his mother thought this behavior and action was totally normal.

就有一次嘛，不知不覺酒醉，他就到我家休息，到我房間休息，後來我要走 的時候，他就把我拉住。對阿…我下面就翹起來了。我就控制不了，就脫光 衣服和他做愛。阿就有聲音阿，阿我媽就回來了。我媽就說你在幹嘛，我媽 就打開門來就看到我們。我媽就說你不會小聲一點喔，那麼大聲幹嘛，不怕 別人聽到喔。他沒有罵我，我媽覺得這個很正常。(F1)

G1 said he did not like to go to school and his family did not care too much about where he went or what he was doing.

家人也都不太想管，那時候常常不去上課，哥哥也是睡覺。不然就去打工，

不常在家。阿公也沒有什麼管我，因為我沒有住在家。爸爸去世之後，我才 去阿公那邊。(G1)

With an abnormal life style and his family did not care about him. It was really hard for his family to locate where he was. His family, school and the police were all looking for him at once but could not find him. He just went his own way and did not care what his family think or say.

那時候的生活很亂阿，家人也都不理我阿。但是總是會找我啦。就找我然後，

但是有時候會去台東阿，所以也找不到我。上學那邊也很麻煩阿，去刑事組 說中輟生的資料，刑事組也在找我，學校也在找我，家裡也在找我，可是都 找不到，哈哈。我也給我爸爸看過，可是我爸要念我的時候，我就不理會他，

就走了。然後自己想去的地方，就這樣。(G1)

He followed and said that one of the reasons that he chose friends instead of his family was because he did not feel he was cared about at home. He felt that none of his family cared about him at all, but his friends cared about him truly. As long as he felt that his family did not respect him and always saw him as a child, he decided to leave home and became deviant.

就是怎麼講，感覺家人都不會尊敬你，不尊重你，把我當做小孩看。就算我 長大了，也不把我當做大人看，把我當小孩子。也不會想想自己以前的心情 是怎樣，我就是這樣叛逆了。會覺得在家都等不到關心，但是我這些朋友都 是很真心的在關心我。(G1)

Similar to D1, H1’s family knew that he was smoking and using drug. However, they did not stop or taught him what was right. Instead, his relatives kicked him out of the house. Therefore, he was living with his friends.

我的家人知道我偷東西，抽菸和吸毒阿，他們就不讓我回家，把我趕出來。

我就去住朋友家。我是和阿公阿嬤舅舅阿姨一起住，反正他們把我趕出來，

我也覺得沒有關係。我就好阿，就出去阿。(H1)

J1’s family knew what he was doing and tried to stop him and warned him orally.

However, his family only asked him not to use drugs or kill anyone. Apart from that, they did not care too much of what J1 was doing.

家人知道阿，剛開始會擋，後來就說你不要常常這樣子亂鬧。他就只是叫我 不要 吸毒，不要殺人，就是比較嚴重的不要犯，其他就沒有在管我了。(J1) K1 was living with his relatives and they did not know that he was committing rubbery but only knew that he did not go to school. However, K1 just ignored whatever his aunt said and did whatever he wanted to do. Until now his relatives still have bad impression about K1, but there was no teaching or caring involved when K1 was living with his relatives.

因為是住姑姑家，姑姑管得很嚴。哥哥也管得很嚴。他們都不知道我做這一 些事情阿，我回去的時候幾乎都是有先去我同學家洗過澡，隔天再回去。所 以姑姑他們都不知道。他們知道我逃學，但是他們回來之後，又在那邊大罵。

阿我那時候又在叛逆期，所以就不理他，就自己做自己的。他們管我，我就 耍大牌阿，不理他們。每次警察帶我回去，她們就開始頭痛了阿，姑姑就開 始頭痛，然後腰痠背痛這樣。然後就很兇阿 “你回來囉，神偷” 。哥哥都知 道我在外面叫神偷，我就不講話，回房間睡覺。就是姑姑她們對我的印象還 是很不好，所以我在這邊的時間又被延長。(K1)

Juveniles who could not receive attention and love from their family turned to deviant leisure activities and their friends. They did not feel like ‘home’ when they were there. There was neither love or care nor respect. Their parents did not pay too much attention on juveniles’ behavior (for example F1’s mother). This might mislead and cause the juveniles to believe that their behaviors were acceptable.