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Your Role

The Challenge of Adolescence

Being a teen is a difficult time. They need to :

  • develop their own distinct identity
  • accept the way they look
  • establish intimate relations with their peers
  • understand and control their sexual impulses
  • establish their adult sexual role and orientation
  • assume responsibility for their decisions and their actions.

Last Modified: September 5, 2006