What do you think are some of the greatest problems facing teenagers today?

Teenage is between thirteen to nineteen. It is undoubtedly the most enjoyable period in one's life. It is fraught with a lot of life long lessons and realization, adventures and memories that last a lifetime. At the same time, it is also the most volatile period in a person's life. It is the crucial phase where childhood ends and adulthood creeps in. The transition is not easy and the massive hormonal changes make life unpredictable and difficult. Teenagers often feel lonely and misunderstood. It can be extremely pressurizing to wade through this phase without proper love, care and guidance. Thus it is very important that during the adolescence proper care is taken. If proper care is not taken and correct guidance is not given to the teenagers then there are high chances that they may go astray.

Times have been changing rapidly. With this rapidly changing time problems have been increasing too. the problems faced by a teenager fifty years back were very different and far less compared to the problems faced by a teenager today. 

Some of the problems faced by teenagers in the modern world are:

1. Pressure to do well in life: The rat race is crazy. The competition is increasing to a level of being unhealthy. Thus the teenager is pushed into this rat race and expected to win the race. This competition and expectations from family become very exhausting for the teenager.
2. Peer Pressure: Peer pressure is a grave pressure faced by teenagers today. The pressure to be on par with one's peers in every aspect in life becomes grueling for the teenager. If they falter, they are immediately treated like an outcast. Thus to fit in they have to follow what their peers are doing, often against their will.
3. Hormonal Imbalance: Hormones go through a joy ride during teenage. There are massive hormonal changes that take place in the body. This makes the teens lose their sense of right and wrong and behave in an erratic and irrational manner. This often leads to a conflict with their parents.
4. The lure of drugs: It is during this phase that an individual is exposed to alcoholic beverages and drugs. Entrapped by the adventurous zeal to try out something new, the teens often try out drugs and alcohol and all that is forbidden in the rule book. If they are not controlled on time, this may lead to addiction and lifelong damage for them.
5. Confounding concept of morality: The teen often finds its confusing to believe what morality actually means. The parents and family members feed one idea of morality while the friends and peers give another idea of morality. Caught between these two conflicting ideas, the teen often himself or herself in a mental and psychological tug-of-war. 

Thus these are some of the problems faced by the teenagers of the modern world. If the teenager is given love and proper and logical answers to his or her often confounding questions, then the teenager grows up to be a well-developed adult.