Overview
Youths today cope with a multitude of challenges that test their ethical and physical mettle, including ubiquitous illegal drugs, widespread pressure to cheat in school and dangerous levels of student hazing. Young people must also deal with growing rates of divorce and childhood depression as well as with the onslaught of an American consumer culture bent on marketing its often violent and sexually provocative music and movies to the "youth demographic." The reports from The CQ Researcher en espanol that make up this book will enable young people, their parents, educators and leaders to study the background and debates surrounding the conditions and rights of young Americans and become knowledgeable participants in those debates.
