There are many problems that teenagers face these days. They are peer pressure, crime and drugs.
Peer pressure is a term describing a person's changes, or temptations to change, in attitude, behavior and morals as directly influenced by their peer group.
It is particularly common because most youths are forced to spend large amounts of time in fixed groups regardless of their opinion of those groups. Also, young people are more willing to behave negatively towards those who are not members of their groups such as teasing and bullying, whereas adult maturity generally precludes this type of behaviour being overtly performed. Peer pressure is also considered by many to be the root cause of several recent tragedies involving young people. Here is an example of peer pressure. If someone in the class was something special or expensive, it will force their classmates to have something of an equal or higher value (either in money or how special the item is). Even if one has something cheap yet useful, that person would want to spend money one something of equal use yet higher cost. This may lead to spending a lot of money one a white elephant. If one fails to do so because of one reason or another, that person will feel pressurised. She/ he will not be able to compare with their friends. This may cause teasing and bullying. If that person has not enough money, he/she will result to my next two points, crime and drugs.
Crime is violation of the law. There are many kinds of crime such as murder and kidnapping but I will focus on robbing and stealing. After robbery and stealing, one will obtain something valuable, usually money. Teenagers who fail to obtain expensive items result to stealing or robbery. They want the money to buy the expensive product to compare with their friends. However, if they get caught, they will be send to prison and they will be have a horrible record on their lives.
Another path is drugs. If the teen is unable to get something to compare with their friends, they may go into depression. When they are in depression, they think that taking drugs or tobacco smoking will be a form of relieve. Eventually, they will be hooked on drugs and spend all their money on drugs. Selling drugs would be an easy way for most teenagers to make money. However, they fail to realise that it is a criminal offence and they can be jailed once caught.
The three point are a domino effect, one will lead to another. So, to sum up all the three points, I will use an example. Let's say we have a teenager named Bob. Bob is not very rich but is not very poor either. His classmate has the latest handphone model and that phone has many good features. Bob's handphone is a simple phone with not many features. His classmate teased him for having a lousy phone model so he asked his parents to get a new phone. However, his parents refuse. So, Bob results to crime to solve his problem. He sells drugs, rob and steal money from people. When he gets caught, he is send to prison and when he wants to go to university, the principal may think twice in accepting him due to that criminal record.
