They know who they are and who we are. They understand relationships with a depth that constantly surprises me. They understand ambiguity. The concept of the school advocating sexual abstinence at the same time it hands out condoms is found to be quite reasonable, not an incomprehensible mixed message. It gives a sense of fear and anger and evil.
Statistics describe our children as frenzied drug users.
They show that most hard drug users have started on marijuana. These statistics are true, but incomplete. Look at the middle majority group. Most adolescents have sampled drugs, just as we all sampled alcohol and dope. Then after a couple of weeks or a couple of months or maybe a year, they come back.