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Entry: Adolescence: A Heresy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_case_against_adolesence#10762 Post contents: Andrew Capp............Only a fellow Alabamian would know about "Looney's Tavern"......(Ha-Ha). 1. Oprah has taught the parents that it is their responsability to fit into their childrens lives. As a result, the kids expect the teachers to fit into their lives and then they expect their employers to fit into their lives, and eventually they expect the prison system to fit into their lives! The older generations clearly understood that as children, they were to fit into their parents lives! 2. The fast food industry was amazing in the early days when teenagers actuallyt worked there! LBJ's "Great Society" ruined that. 3. Sports now dominate many teens lives, leaving little room for working a part time job and parents love living out their sports fantasy through their child like a status symbol. 4. Bad things happen some times, but now days, if a minor is injured on anybody's property lawyers come running like wolves! 5. The "Great Depression" pushed children out of the home, not only to we, but to generate income to take a burden off of the family. Many of the poor in the South actually died of malnutrition and poverty. 6. American parents have simply chosen the materialism over the traditional family, and the teens have enough sense to recognize it! Sent at: 2008 12 01