At first it just starts out with some close friends however, as the night goes on more people start to come. ... A teenager who gets pregnant should give the baby up for adoption because she isn't ready for a baby. ... Most teenagers are still in High School and do not have a steady income coming in. ... My cousin was having a hard time trying to figure out who she was going to give the baby to. ... Why go through all the pain that comes along with having a baby if you aren't even going to keep the child. ...

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Teenagers don't only dress and act like their idols, but they also mimic their actions. ... Psychologists believe that his explicit lyrics caused the boys to go crazy and begin a shooting rampage that ultimately ended in their own suicides. ... Parents should explain that every person deals with their problems in a different manner and that just because Eminem uses music and explicit lyrics; that is no reason to go hurt or even kill someone. ... The violence that psychologists say is caused by explicit lyrics can be destroyed by positive role models in a teenager's life. If paren...

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Privacy is something that all teenagers need to a certain extent. ... Many parents invade their teenager's privacy to put an end to their worrying. ... If the teenager won't communicate, the parent must check up on him. ... The failure of his mother to ask about how he felt about the remarriage cause him to go into depression. ... It's time for teenagers to realize that their parents love them so much that they would go to the ends of the earth to make sure that they are safe and sound. ...

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Being a teenager I was very out of control. ... College is what most teenagers can't wait to go away from home but I was more interested I was partying. ... My friends and I were getting ready to go party and fun. ... Going in we hear bullet shots right behind us one of my closest friends got shot. When this occurred my whole life was going through my head. ...

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Whether the pregnancy is expected or not, when a teenager becomes a mother, she is choosing to give up a world she has always known. ... The realities and responsibility of being responsible for another human being twenty-four hours a day is something most teenagers have never experienced before. ... I have never experienced this situation first hand, but I know of someone who is going through it right know. ... She is just now realizing the obstacles that she is going to have to overcome. ...

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Many teenagers lie to their parents about something they did or somewhere they went. ... I asked him once where he thought it all started to go wrong. He told me how he had lied to his parents so that he could go to a party, when he was a teenager, where he was exposed to and experimented with drugs and became addicted causing a downward spiral that continued until he was arrested and thrown in jail. ... They are planning on going to a rave, or using a fake id to get into a bar or club. ... For example, underage teenagers who have been smoking will lie to their parents. ...

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Divorce is the hardest things some people will ever go through. ... Teenagers often get worried about adult things, such as the family's financial situation, during a divorce. If a teenager tries to take on adult responsibilities, assign age appropriate chores (helping with laundry, doing the dishes, ect...) ... Often, brothers and sisters will form a tighter bond while going through such a difficult time. ... This situation can go the opposite direction with increased arguments between siblings. ...

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Do you let your sixteen year old daughter go on Spring Break with a parent, or even let them go at all? These are all very controversial issues among us teenagers. ... I think it would just be hard to let your little girl go off on her own, being a parent and knowing everything that goes on. ... I believe that teenagers think they are going to be the coolest parents, but I think reality will hit them when they care for and watch their baby grow up for about 14 years. ... Are you going to just let your little kid go, or do you want them to stay home because you want them to realize how spe...

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We all love our social life as teenagers, right? ... Teen parents say that it is really hard to do when you are a teenager. ... It is harder now that your a parent in your teens because you can't just go to work all day and make some good money, you also have to go to school. ... And other teens drop out because of the rumors and gossiping that goes on during school. ... Increase in responsibilities, ways to prevent pregnancy, social life, finances, and schooling are just the basics to consider before having a child as a teenager. ...

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Many parents believe teenagers need constant supervision because teenagers make poor choice. I did agree because if you keep a child in locked the house, when he goes outside he will run wild, and may not want to return home. ... My parents loved how my brother would ask for advice about the issues they were having, and encourage me to ask, and tell my mom and dad about what I was going through. ... For instance, my old brother would come in the house, and if he heard my parents talking in the living room or kitchen, he would immediately go to his room without speaking to or informing ...

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She describes the intense battle of her having to let go of her family's working class lifestyle to pursue her career as a writer and go on to obtain more credible and more extravagant education. ... This battle of opposing forces showed me why teenagers wish to leave their parents as soon as they possibly can. ...

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He felt that this hindered his academic and social abilities, because he did not have his father to guide him through the difficulties of being a teenager. ... Without him, I would not be where I am, and I would not get to where I am going to go....

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For example, if a sixteen year old is not learning how to deal with real world things, than that teenager is going to grow up at a slower pace. ... At a certain point in a child or teenagers life, there is a point in time at which a parent needs to "cut the cord" as most would say. ... At this point the child have not had the opportunity to fall and see that everything is going to be okay. ... However, it is that realization that tells you that everything is going to be okay and it is not the end of the world. ... When it comes to helicopter parents, they hover over their children ...

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Teenagers with divorced parents are 50 percent more likely to drink alcohol than those with married parents. ... It also goes without saying that day-to-day involvement of both parents lets a child know that he or she is loved. ...

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Of particular interest to her is the fate of her younger brother, who ran away as a teenager and never came back. ... In the book she keep on using the present and the past to tell her story, and that gives me as a reader a sense of how she go on with her life. ...

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Jess is a normal teenager who loves to play football on her free time. ... Her team made it to the playoffs, but her parents put her sisters wedding date on the day of the playoffs and on the day that the scouts were finally going to be there to watch her play. When the wedding came they still would not let her go to the game, until half way through when her dad said "in that is the only thing that is going to make you happy on your sisters wedding day then go play. ... He says " I miss fastball and I regret quitting" " I saw how good Jess is at football and I except her decision to go to sc...

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Teenagers find it hard to express their sadness, and the parents have trouble dealing with these feelings. The "sense of family" seems lost, and this can hurt the teenagers that need the security of a family at this time. ... In one interview a teenager's parents divorced when he was in the ninth grade. ... GPA's would go down and schoolwork no longer was a priority. ...

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Whenever a person will go to such lengths as to question another's actions, the inquiry is easily retorted with the phrase, "It's my life, and I can do whatever I want with it". ... Unable to be penetrated by her mother, she gives in to her boyfriend and finds herself as a pregnant teenager and a statistic, the same as thousands of girls in America. ...

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I jumped out of bed and woke my little brother up to go eat breakfast. ... No more going out on Friday nights with my friends, no more doing whatever I want. Every Friday, my friends would go out to the movies, and have fun without me. ... The warm salty tears run down my cheek as I dream of the life of a teenager I have never experienced. I long for the loud noise of people yelling and cheering, "Go team go," and a crowd of people around me at a school football game. ...

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In spite of our age whether you are a little baby or a teenager, our parents have a great deal of responsibility. ... In fact, parents deal with more serious situations as children are going through adolescence. ... As the saying goes, "it goes through the left ear and out the right ear". ... They did not just prevent you from not going for fun. ... They go through the hassle of purchasing books, doing research and guidance. ...

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Go on to explain why you feel sympathy for him or her. ... The reader sympathizes with Robbie here because you can almost imagine what is going through to child's head. ... This would be a very challenging thing for any young teenager to cope with. ... No child his age should ever be in this situation, and considering everything going on his life, Robbie does pretty well. ...

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My mom was cooking, my brother was sleeping, my dad was watching television and I was with my friend getting ready to go out. ... There were so many questions going trough our heads at that time and still are till now, we had no clue what had happened since, my mom had spoken to him ten minutes earlier and everything seemed alright. ... He was eighteen when he moved to US to support his parents and two younger brothers in Pakistan, from that day on his life changed, he was only a teenager when he had to worry about supporting his entire family instead of going out parting and attending college...

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Teenagers are parenting at the age they should be navigating through adolescence. ... The teenager is essentially maturing as her child ages. She is now in a whole different bracket compared to non parenting teenagers. ... The teen is already going through so much at home, having added such a huge social role to her life. ... By June, I was going to be a mom and they were going to be a highschool graduate. ...

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Marriage Gone Bad Recently divorce has become a recurring trend throughout America. In my parents" marriage there were a number of causes that lead up to their divorce. Early marriage, contrasting maturity levels, differing parenting styles, and communication problems all played a part in my par...

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With that happening, teenagers can become pregnant or if they're males they may have someone pregnant. ... Once children find something that's interested and have positive activates going on, parents can get more done. ...

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• Grade Level: High School