The young people perceive themselves as a group apart from the established older generation. This isolation of age groups has led to a teenage sub-culture wherein parents loose some influence and peer opinions become highly valued. Adolescents spend so much time with members of their own age groups in schools and colleges that it is not surprising to find values and customs drawn from peers rather than parents. The ideas, attitudes and feelings of adolescents are usually based upon the volatile mixture of adult maturity and juvenile innocence. For this reason, the views of adolescents often conflict with those of their elders.
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