"Threats to Adolescent's Well Being"

Being a parent is not an easy thing. A lot of parents now a days see their child as a reflection of themselves, thinking they're a wonderful kid and they don't do anything bad. With this thought, parents don't question their child as much as they should, especially when their child is getting into trouble or making bad grades. When another adult mentions the thought of using drugs, the parent is just in denial or thinks, "No, not my child." Like it explains on page 397, drug use starts as early as twelve years old. It is more common now for adolescence to try drugs. Some interesting statistics that are found on page 398 were, "out of a survey of 50,000 students, 20% of eighth graders used marijuana as well as 50% of high school seniors." I think parents and especially the media are major factors in controlling drug use among adolescence and teens. The media portrays images of people with perfect bodies, and teens and adolescents admire them. This leads to eating disorders in teens and adolescents. If parents kept authoritative style of parenting throughout their childs' lives, than they could keep their children aware of the media and peer pressure.