Moore announces that he is going to allow the prom to happen and asked all the parents to allow their kids to go. ... The parents had to approve the books the teenagers could read and the music they could listen to just as the whites had to chose what rules were going to be put in place as the Jim Crow laws. ... If the teenagers were caught dancing, listening to music or reading books that had not been approved they would have to go to court and possibly go to jail. ... They would have to go in front of the court and possibly go to jail. ... Ren had to go in front of a court and justify the ...

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Many teenagers engage in sex at a very age for the wrong reasons. This is a problem that society is trying is to fix but it is not working because rates are continuing to go up. ... Although many girl's become pregnant and guy's get them pregnant it isn't primarily because of their individual and family character because that is not fixed it's other things that influence them to go about their decision. ... Teenagers never realize that they have so much ahead of them and that things change. ... If society works in a whole they can change the values of the children growing...

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An on going debate has continued regarding the notification of parents on abortion. ... Information must be obtained on the psychological effects of abortion on teenage mothers before any federal law goes into existence on teen abortions. ... In the argument that the teenager should have to tell the parents because she will receive good and informative advice, support, and understanding I think is not true because if the parents were like that from the beginning and offered that kind of love, the teenager would have no need to go out and look for some other sort of forced love (sex). ...

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They have also designed ads that focus on teenagers. ... Working there has made me realize that I would like to go to college and major in computer science and possibility of engineering. ... Working teenagers get their first bit of independence while working and going to school by way of their paycheck, the money that they make is their to use for whatever they want, it lets them purchase items and services without having to ask their parents and without permission. ... Of course to everything good there is always something bad about it, likewise with working as a teenager, some studies have...

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This has now led to some schools having to start dispensing free condoms and contraceptives to students who go to the school's health clinics. ... Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teenagers, and the wanted independence by teenagers. ... When there is no good communication between parents and teenagers, teenagers turn to their peers for advi...

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For example, say a teenager walks into a music store to buy a CD. The CD the teenager wants to buy has two versions. ... What do you think the teenager is going to buy? ... The CD the teenager wants to buy has two versions. ... What do you think the teenager is going to buy? ...

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Since that law was passed, teenagers have become dedicated to finding a way to have the legal drinking age lowered back to the age of eighteen. ... The first argument that teenagers have against the drinking age being twenty-one is their enrollment for the draft. They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... If the majority of teens are going to use their eligibility to vote as a reason to lower the Magnuson-2- drinking age, then the majority of them should actually go vote when it is time. At eighteen, most t...

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The United States" teenage birthrate exceeds that of most other industrialized nations, even though American teenagers are no more sexually active than teenagers in Canada or Europe (Gormly, 1997). ... African-American and Hispanic teenagers are twice as likely to give birth as are white teenagers. ... Babies born to teenagers are often too small and too soon. ... Some research indicates that "the percentage of teenage birthrates has declined simply because fewer teenagers are having sexual intercourse and more teenagers are using contraceptives (Johnson, 1995)." ... The outcome of teena...

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I got out of bed and went up to tell my mom I did not want to go to school. ... I was going to be a kid for as absolutely long as possible. ... Of us 5 women here today, almost 2 of us would have been pregnant as a teenager. ... About 80% of young people have sex as a teenager. ... So why are so many teenagers sexually active? ...

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Many teenagers hope to become well rounded people, succeeding in life and facing as few troubles as possible. ... What someone goes through, or has to deal with greatly impacts who they become. Someone with depression is going to be completely different then someone who has a positive attitude most of the time. ... Since they follow what most teenagers view as normal, they aren't used to going out of their comfort zone so they stick to what is normal even if they don't want to. ... Our identities are constantly being tweaked and changed depending on what we go through and what we do....

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Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are at higher risk for unplanned pregnancy than others. ... Teenagers are participating in the new world of sexual freedom. ... With more and more teens having casual sex, the risks of pregnancy goes up. ... Teenagers who come from poor neighborhoods are at a high risk for pregnancy. ... More than half of all welfare recipients were teenagers when their first child was born. ...

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When you are a teenager, you deal with an abundance of stressful things on a day-to-day basis, bullying is a very common aspect for a teenage. ... All bullies are different in the methods they choose to harass the person they're going after, and most of the time, the bully does not strike alone. ... Teenagers have consumed most internet media sites making them more liable to be open to a cyberbully. ... It is a terrible thing to know that kids in today's society, think it is okay to go online and talk bad about another kid and get away with it because "it is easier to get away w...

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Millions of teenagers in the United States are misinformed about the risks of being sexually active and think nothing bad could ever happen to them but through sex education class students would learn about different types of sexually transmitted diseases and how to avoid getting them. ... Parents do not always feel comfortable talking to their teenagers about sex and how to protect themselves from STD's and unwanted pregnancies. ... "Concluded that teenagers who had studied under such programs were no more likely to abstain from sex than those who had not had such education" (F...

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Kids and teenagers had many financial wants and they were greatly expressed by the media. ... As the youth turned into teenagers their taste grew more expensive, instead of cheap little toys they wanted cameras, TV sets, and phonographs which were more expensive than the average toy. Teenagers were costly to parents at the time, spending currency on big appetites, on trying to look their best, the massive entertainment culture, along with homemaking products for those who got wed at an early age. ... Television helps with conformity, it tells everybody what to buy, where to go, what to do, and...

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Moreover, homeless people including teenagers run away from families and teenagers that are thrown away by families who no longer want them. ... They get kicked out of their homes and are too ashamed to go to their families because of their illness, so they are often seen on the streets struggling to stay warm. ... You wouldn't want to walk down the road alone, let your children or grandmother go by themselves. ... Some runaway teenagers make up the nation's homeless population. ... It is a common assumption that property values will go down in areas where affordable housing is locat...

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Meeting the parents of the slain teenagers in court, she eventually visits them and listens to their accounts of grief, rage, and loss. ... It shows how much pain and suffering the families had to go through with all the sadness and hatred against Matthew Poncelant. On the other hand, the movie also illustrated how the families' hatred did not go away after Matthew was executed. The greatest emotional part of the movie was when Matthew confessed that he did kill the teenagers and that he was truly sorry. ... When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith to join...

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Teenagers go through many things. ... Teenagers from Louisiana Alliance to Prevent Underage Drinking do not agree with this concept. ... They do this and go to the party usually at parks or an open area. ... Lightner says, "If we really want to save lives, let's go after the most dangerous drivers on the road." ... Alcohol does not go up with the price of inflation, for alcohol is taxed by volume. ...

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The majority of customers were black and white teenagers that were not obese like the adults inside the restaurant. ... "Pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk in, get on line, study the backlit color photographs above the counter, place your order, hand over a few dollars, watch teenagers in uniforms pushing various buttons, and moments later take hold of a plastic tray full of food wrapped in colored paper and cardboard." The fast food industry employs more teenagers than any other industry in America. ... It then goes through many stages of processing that eliminates ...

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When the teens get pregnant they tend go on welfare because they know that the system would take care of them and their child. ... The outcome of the children by teenagers, tend to turn to a life of crime. ... Shahala, announced that the percentage of teenagers who had sexual intercourse had declined for the time after increasing steadily for more than two decades. ... Various means have been recommended to combat the problem of teenage pregnancy, including universal sex education, free contraceptive services for teenagers, open discussion of sex between parents and children, and the media. ...

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I consider myself an average American teenager. ... This has allowed me to grow up not only as an American teenager, but also as a Syrian. ... He had a very calm and unsure domineer, almost as if he was reluctant to let me go. This confounded me, as I couldn't fathom why he wouldn't want me to go have fun. ... When my friends would go to a sleepover, I had to come home early because there were going to be boys. ...

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"About what, we don't go together anymore?... They are decreasing their chances of going to college, traveling, or achieving their goals in life. ... Birth control has become a very important part in teenagers' lives across the world because they are choosing to become sexually active at young ages. ... Sanger, going to court and jail for the United States government to realize that they should not infringe on women's birth control rights, their fighting was not in vain. ... This is why it is so important in this day and age for everyone from teenagers to adults to practice some...

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Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found that teenagers who received some type of comprehensive sex education were 60 percent less likely to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant. ... I believe that sexual education programs that are funded by the government that promote abstinence are going against the separation of Church and State. ... This may make these teenagers feel worse and they will not be educated on safe sex methods. ... President Barack Obama outlined how he intends to achieve the president's goal that "The United States will become a place where new H...

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She had no choice but to go to her mother about it. Her mother was disappointed in her and explained to her this was going to be a burden on the family because obviously the daughter cant afford a baby and now the mom is going to have to help her and she cant afford this. ... It is considered a social problem because, when teenagers are having babies, it affects not only themselves but society as a whole. ... Some teenagers may be so overwhelmed by having a baby in their lives that they now need to care & attend to 24/7. ... Tax-payers are affected if the teen mother needs to go on welfare...

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Some children with disabilities have very low self-esteem at a young age and, when people bully them it affects their self-esteem more until they end up not wanting to go out or go to school. ... "It is unacceptable that young people and their families are being excluded from planning and decision-making about their care and for them to be without essential services or equipment temporarily, while arrangements are resolved" (Teenagers with Disabilities). ... "There is "no excuse" for providers and commissioners of care to ignore national guidance that supports young people ...

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And the ones that held the gun were two teenagers themselves. Teenagers alone should not even have an opportunity to get a gun, let alone shoot one. ... If they are going to limit things in the 2nd Amendment, it should be listed and written into that amendment. ...

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