Teenager’s lives’ are no easier than they were 20 years ago, in fact maybe even worse. The challenging problems that today’s teens face may or may not be the same as the problems that teens faced 20 years ago but on a whole they are much worse. The media portrays teenagers in this era as having a laid-back life-style with no goals and without any ambitions. Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our
parents never had to face such as single parent households. Drug addiction has always been around but never before have they been more available. The pressure to get a good education is enormous and so teenagers have it just as bad, if not worse.
Teenagers these days have it just as bad, if not even worse than in
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The media portrays teenagers in this era as having a laid-back life-style with no goals and without any ambitions. The media influence societies to generalize that all teenagers are drug addicts and have an easy life when in reality our life is no easier than it was 20 years ago, in fact maybe even worse. The media adds to this by generating ideas and notions to suggest we are self-indulgent and take no responsibility in our actions. One would think that in this era, teenagers have more responsibility than ever before with all the pressures of getting a good education and career, teenagers cannot afford to slack off because the result might mean they won’t be succe