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/^t/Unfortunately, adults do not often understand their duties towards their children. They mistakingly comprehend earning money and buying their kids everything they want with proper raising. They never have time to talk to the teenagers or to do things together with them. No wonder that youngsters feel abandoned and so they try to get attention by all possible ways. Undoubtfuly, the most popular ways of getting attention are the most shocking ones. So, in first place, the kids try alcohol or drugs. Needless to say, these "toys" are very expensive so sooner or later the kids are forced to lie or to steal to afford them. If the parents do not react in time their kid can become an alcohol- or a drug-addict who additionally may have a "rich" police record very early in his life. Of course, this would never happen in a loving and understanding family who talk to each other and know all the problems which the youngest ones have.