Teens today will do almost anything to fit in or be cool. Peer pressure is a huge part of teens doing drugs. Teens think it is cool to rebel against authority. If a certain crowd is doing something illegal others will follow to try to fit in. Even if a teen has never considered doing drugs they might do it just to fit in with their friends.
It is because it is illegal. If we are lowering the drinking age, will we be worse off because kids are used to binge drinking? Another issue is stress. When parents were growing up, they didn’t have the kind of stress kids are dealing with today. So why are so many teenagers stressed to succeed academically?
229) I believe this quote reveals the moral because as he reads this book he find out Crusoe is all alone and isolated and even though Charlie doesn’t realize it yet he himself is isolated and lonely as well. Next the writer demonstrates the lesson by including the character’s dialogue. While Charlie is reading his progress reports with Miss Kinnian he says, “All my frends are smart people but there good.” (Pg. 229) I feel this quote expresses the theme because Charlie doesn’t realize how his friends actually treat him. He thinks they’re all nice to him, but instead they just laugh at him and make fun of him which signalizes that he’s lonely.
“The carnage caused by underage drinking in America is unrelenting.” NLLEA Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug by teenagers in America. On www.ojjdp.gov they mention how alcohol influences you to partake in risky sexual behaviors. Youth who decide to drink and have sex have a higher chance of becoming pregnant or contracting an STD. People often look at alcohol consumption as a normal young adult behavior, but are blind to all the consequences from it. Underaged drinking is a social issue and causes many problems from learning problems to alcoholism.
The Growing Problem with Drug Abuse in Teenagers within the United States Introduction Within today’s society, there is a growing trend among teenagers. This growing trend is to try a variety of drugs and this leads to drug abuse. Once exposed and to use specific drugs, teens tend to like the effect and go back to experiment further. Most of the people who begin experimenting with the drugs are a victim of peer pressure. Unfortunately it seems there is more our society can do to help prevent this trend.
In America, it seems many teenagers are inclined to act disrespectful to one another. The saying that teenagers should respect one another seems to have disappeared or vanished. What has taken over and replaced this attitude on teenagers is disobedience and rudeness. Some may be influenced by their friends, or may be the lack of discipline from their parents. In result, lack of discipline from parents along with mimicking their friends’ attitudes toward one another exemplifies few factors that influences teen rudeness.
Teens are not the same as Adults Kari Adams December 7, 2012 B2 In the article, “Kids Are Kids – Until They Commit Crimes” Margie Lundstrom argues that teenagers should not be tried as adults because their resonating in not fully developed, but they should not go unpunished. I agree with this because teenagers’ brains are not fully developed, so their judgment is poor. Lundstrom states that “Kids are different. Their reasoning is not fully developed. They are not adults”(1).
Today teens across the country have and already been influenced to do bad and dissapointing things. Part of the issue is the influence the world brings upon teens. Media has a lot to do with what the world today and the influence it spreads to teenagers and adults. For example, Music Videos in the Hip Hop world encourage either drugs, sex, or theft. Reality shows on television as well set bad examples such as excessive use of vulgar language causing viewers to think it's 'okay' to do the same.
Analyze the conflicts peer pressure and substance use and abuse has on adolescence. Peer pressure can certainly lead to substance use and even abuse, but do these things have an effect on adolescent children, and if so, how? Young adults spend more waking hours with their peers than with anyone else, so the likeliness that they are going to be faced with the conflict of trying drugs and or alcohol is likely unavoidable. Peer influences have been found to be among the strongest predictors of drug use during adolescence (umich.edu). The family dynamic may also have bearing on the level of influence that peers have on a child to decide to dabble in substances, such as if the child is in a single parent home, if the parents or parent use drugs and alcohol themselves, the availability of the drugs, and the neighborhood that the child lives.
Drug Use and Delinquency Response Debbie Johnson CJS/240 June 21, 2011 Kenneth Jack Breinden What is the main reason of youth drug use? Professional believe youths who are involve with elicit substance are simply alienating themselves form the cultural norms of society in order to make a statement. While other professional, on the other hand, believe those juveniles who participate experiment with drugs other than alcohol and tobacco allow themselves to fall into negative peer pressures as a result of wanting to rebel, protest, hold a degree of resistance to authority toward ones parents and administrators or obtained characteristics for unconventional behavior during their adolescence. Juveniles may use drugs as a result of insufficient parental guidance, strong family bond, supervision or the presence of physical, psychological and substance abuse within, the juvenile’s home (Steffenhagen, & Polich 2009). How does drug use relate to delinquency?