Family and Identity - parents and teenagers.

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Good evening, dear parents:

I’m very honored to stand in this position to share my point of view as a teenager. Many people think that teenagers nowadays are impenetrable, from the strange clothes they wear, earsplitting music they enjoy, their irresponsible behaviors, to their nonmainstream values. However, I would like to say, these behaviors are inevitable to teenagers but they will not stop them from becoming a good person and be useful to society. It is the lack of proper care from parents to blame for some teenagers becoming self-absorbed and cannot transform into a responsible adult.

        Teenage time is the dominating period to determine who we are in which we go through puberty as well as the formation of our personality and self-identity. Teenagers may grow up very fast physically during puberty but their development of mind can be a lot slower. This is the main reason for teenagers at this stage to be rebellious and hard to control. Family plays an important role during this time. The study of family influences on the development of psychological problems in teenagers shows that, in a group of 195 teenagers aged 17 to 18, those who involved in family disruption, legal difficulties, parental marital problems or mental psychiatric disorder recorded in the medical notes of their families were significantly more likely to have physical and mental health problems during the previous years. The conclusion we can get from this research is that family is the major factor in forming the identity of an individual.

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        On one hand, the behaviors of the parents will more or less affect the children, so it is crucial for parents to set a good example in a family. In the film ‘Muriel’s wedding’, Muriel’s dad never gave his children any encouragement. He ‘helped’ Muriel in wrong ways such as buying her a diploma and bribing the police. This set a wicked role model for Muriel that she later stole her dad’s money for vacation and involved in an ostensible marriage in order to show off and prove to her ‘friends’ that she’s not useless. She deceived others as well ...

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