Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour

Re:Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky beh... by quasse on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:56PM (#16449557)

>if you are teen bored in a small town then getting into trouble there with less stuff around that will kill you is very appealing to a parent

I don't know what small towns you've been around, but at least where I grew up those things were:

A: Drinking and driving B: Heroin/Meth

My friends from the countryside generally got into waayyy riskier stuff than the city kids, and it often seemed to be boredom / hopelessness related.

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Re:Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky beh... by tbyehl on Friday February 23, 2018 @11:41PM (#16451708)

A while back I bumped into a friend and his family in Highlands, NC while I was out on a motorcycling day trip. Why are y'all here? Oh, the wife grew up over in Sapphire. What do kids in Sapphire do? Meth and get knocked up.

So.

C: Get pregnant.

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