What is the number one problem facing teenagers today?

Answer 1

Stress.

Which stems from a host of things.

Sicknesses, either the teen, a family member or a close friend.

Death.

School violence

Home violence

Sex, the pressure to have it, even if you don't want to, and the consequences when you have it.

Drugs and alcohol. The pressure to take them or watching a good friend/family member going down him because of using it.

No one to turn to. Adults that get mad when you say how you feel, adults that say you don't know what you are talking about and adults that ignore or neglect you.

Sexual or physical or emotional abuse from any source.

School grades and the unfair grading system

The future, in the way of earning a living, but most important, will there be a earth to have a future on.

Parents who rather earn money for that big screen. plasma TV than spend time with their teens.

Parents and others that never praise, just criticize and compare.

Being accpeted by their peers. This involves personality, looks, grades and weight.

Answer 2

1. what is your name?how old are you? Elizabeth Lynn 2. what state do you currently live in? USA, don't want to say the state :) 3. how are you involved with teens in your life? im 15 4. from when you were a teen, do you feel the overall pressure on teens has greatly changed? why? no, but their ways of coping with it have. it seems as though teens today run away from their problems. 5. what is the biggest pressure teens struggle with? sex 6. do you think when a teen s considered to be an outcast, they might do something to feel accepted? yes 7. do you ever feel pressured to do something that your peers are doing? yes 8. do you feel different generations of teens has different peer pressures to go through? yes 9. have societies pressures on teens gotten worse over the years due to all the new laws? yes 10. what do you think affects a teenager the most: A. the pressure of getting into a good college B. feeling accepted within their peers C. feeling good about how they look all of the above, it should be A, and B and C seem to go together 11. do you think a teenager in more influenced to do drugs in todays society compared to previous years? yes ** if you have children please answer a few more: 12. how many children do you have? 1 13. how old? and names? 3 weeks and her name is Abigail Rose 14. from having XX children, do you think that due to the years they were brought up changes how they dealed with problems in their life? don't know yet lol 15. from now being a parent and being in both positions (parent and child) do you feel if you had the chance to go back would you have changed the decisions you made. due to how hurtful children can be even when there not trying? im still both, but i wouldnt change anything. im proud of my past, i would never let anothers words interfere with how i live my life. 16. can you relate to your childrens problems? the only problems she has so far is not being changed lol 17. what do you think is the biggest problem they are now facing? peer pressure

Answer 3

The worst thing is 18 year olds whose parents assume no more responsibility for them and even worse when their parents can afford to help pay their college, but they don't because the gov. doesn't give grants or loans to kids whose parents can afford it. So, these kids are left not able to afford college, not skilled enough to get better than a near minimum wage job, can't afford a vehicle, don't have the credit to get a vehicle, same with an apartment. They need to be helped as much as possible when they are set on their own and they need to be taught in highschool how very hard it is to set your life. When a child graduates high school, the next few years plan the rest of their lives and they need to understand that and face the real world with a knowledge of how to be successful.

Answer 4

Accidents. More specifically, road accidents. I'm 17 and the road toll is so bad in Australia that I was sitting in a room with only 19 other 16/17 year olds and told 'atleast 1 of you will not be around in 10 years'.

Recently the RTA made it so L platers have to do 120 hours instead of 50, over 12 months instead of 6 (before they can go for their P's). Lets hope this works.

Answer 5

I think the number one problem facing teenagers is drugs and alcohol as well as sex. There is too much advertising and TV shows regarding these issues. Maybe in 10 years this might be different.

Answer 6

There r so many problems... but I think lack of interaction with their parents, who are too busy to spare some time for them. Family is being treated as primary school for the children & when children enter in teenage period they become more confused when they face new face of the society. I think this is the time when they require guidance from their family members...... & they feel alone under problems when they see themselves alone..... this is the no. I problem.....so don't keep alone yr children when they enter in such age....

Answer 7

Acceptance

Answer 8

i wouldnt say drugs or sex..adults do it just as much or more. drugs and sex is a animal thing.not really a problem. im a teen and it annnoys me when people constanly blame sex and drugs and tv thats the thing we dont gives a rats about.. that just is a part of life.. ..coming from a highschooler i would say that the biggest problem is being someone...its hard to be yourself when the people around you might not like you or might like you so much that you become bigheaded and then people dont like you..this causes alot of stress wich can lead to drugs and other activities...... its also hard when ur just thrown out into the world after highschool to not many people are *fit* persay to live on thier own..and have a hard life suffering from depression and lonliness. i have to help alot of my freinds all of my freinds want to be somone want to be loved cared for and took care of...tho everyone wants that.. ..really that is not teenage problem its bascily EVERYONE...we all need to be someone OUR own person not other people or try to be something or someone we are not..we must be real... people just generaly need love.....i think i answered more than u ask but its worth it

Answer 9

Ignorance. If they would be encouraged to open their eyes and actually think critically, they would quickly arrive at the truth.

Instead, they're fed a batch of baloney that involves feeling good about oneself (when one doesn't merit it), believing based on emotions rather than logic, and doing things for reasons they don't really follow.

And that's just in the public schools.

Answer 10

Fitting in. Every teenager wants to fit into something.