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Representation of teenagers by the media

            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 the past. The pressures to get a good education are enormous compared to 2 decades ago. A good education wasn't absolutely necessary back then considering that the majority of teens could get a decent job at the age of 16 and learn their chosen career without having to finish year 10 or get a university degree. .
             Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our .
             parents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and.
             drug addiction have always been around but they have never been more available.
             to adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to take.
             care of themselves with more and more single parent households. The problem of.
             drug and alcohol plagues our teens and from this, stereotypes exist suggesting that all teenagers are somehow related to the drug scene. In actual fact the majority of teenagers are not drug abusers and do not deserve the stereotypes society attribute to them. A key factor in which society is influenced to attribute these stereotypes to teenagers is the media.
             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.


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