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The adult need not, and indeed often cannot and should not, agree with the teenager's views on life; but at least he must try to understand the meaning of these views, and the problems which often lie behind them for the adolescent.
The aim of the contributors to this issue has been to highlight and are ?ften reluctant explain some of the specific and Pr?blem as one for rather special problems of the present-day solely of, the adolescent. Not teenage generation.
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the least of these reasons is that this up-and-coming generation is reminding us of our own steadily advancing years; and of the fact that we will be challenged by, and in rivalry with, this new generation when they shortly reach adulthood themselves.
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lu
a
coinmon error to assume
is that and age generation vresent Keats described adolescenc as "t^le sPace m between in sou^ is *n a ferment, the er Undecided and the way of life And, in Henry IV, gives a vivid clinical ^?n of adolescent rebellion again Parental authority and 0n in his of Prince picture Henr ^ The Monmouth. present day differs in detail and te ee rather than in basic principle.
"teenage problem"
of ?nlv
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Miiot char? ShakJncertain"i
desc^sP.eare
exDer5
.
degrPr?blem
'
adu,ts ^Th^1 ad^i
the
are
see
th^
many
reasons,
too,
why
Try
to understand
The adult need not, and indeed often cannot and should not, agree with the teenager's views on life; but at least he must try to understand the meaning of these views, and the problems which often lie behind them for the adolescent.
The aim of the contributors to this issue has been to highlight and are ?ften reluctant explain some of the specific and Pr?blem as one for rather special problems of the present-day solely of, the adolescent. Not teenage generation.
tV w?rld is basically so critigeneration; Jue uP'and-coming We to
cai 0f
the least of these reasons is that this up-and-coming generation is reminding us of our own steadily advancing years; and of the fact that we will be challenged by, and in rivalry with, this new generation when they shortly reach adulthood themselves.
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