Totally Alien Life-Form: Teenagers

Everyone has an opinion about teenagers. The media both cater to and condemn them, yet rarely are teenagers' voices heard in public forums--and more rarely still does anyone seek their opinion on anything other than sex, drugs, and violence. These are certainly looming factors in the lives of many adolescents, but teens have a great deal more to say about the increasingly complex territory they must negotiate on the way to adulthood. In "A Totally Alien Life Form" they speak their minds with extraordinary frankness.