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October 31, 2004
Teenagers, the trouble with!
I've been asked several times to speak on "The trouble with teenagers!" and although I resent the title I welcome the opportunity to speak on the general subject. I have consistently argued that although adolescence will be stormy (you can't change from being a child to an adult without it being messy) the trouble stems more, in fact, from societal issues and not teenage ones.
A few years back I remember Hilary Clinton saying,
"Our lives are in a crisis of meaning, we don't know what they mean!"
That does not bode well for the next generation I think, struggling to find out who they are and where they fit. I therefore commend this quote to the blog-house:
"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"
Posted by ian at October 31, 2004 12:34 AM