Why do teenagers have such a hard time with moral issues?

What makes an issue moral or immoral is not always easy to answer. Many teenagers find that they have a hard time with moral issues because what is a moral issue to their parents/family is not to them. For example, parents may not want their children to drink alcohol while the childern do not see this as a moral issue. A variation on this is parents believing that one set of behaviours is okay for boys but not for girls. When this happens, girls in particular often have a hard time with the double standard in their families and question the morality of being treated unequal to their brothers.





There are two levels of moral dilemma which occurs in each person as he/she is sorting out his/her moral issues. First, what do I believe in relation to what my parents/family are telling me to believe? Second, if I believe or have different morals from my family, how do I reconcile these differences? How do I live in two worlds - especially with extended family pressures?





Many youth keep their own values and morals to themselves and live according to their parents and society's expectations of them. For these individuals, it is better to be personally unhappy but morally at peace for not disappointing their parents than to be personally happy yet have to live with being a disappointment to what their parents and families want.





Each person has to decide for him/herself what he/she can live with and how much personal happiness or unhappiness will the the consequence. There are no easy answers and from my experience, very few universal rights and wrongs.Why do teenagers have such a hard time with moral issues?
i'll take time 2 understand this problem bcoz i m still a teenagerWhy do teenagers have such a hard time with moral issues?
it's because we're still trying to figure out who we are, and where we fit in in the world. we're doing things we probably shouldn't do, which in a way tells us where we belong, and what characterizes us. we're also immature, and in between childhood and adulthood, so we're too young to act responsible enough, but we're too old to do everything that our parents tell us without rebelling at all.
Because they think that they are older to do things by their own.


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i think because of curiosity.
because their hormones are raging and they don't always know the way to properly channel it
confused as always
It really depends on how their parents have raised them. If parents don't communicate and spend time with their children, their kids will feel neglected and they will submit of the negatives of peer pressure easily.
Because they don't look at their lives the same way parents, or their elders do.





It's like they can't handle being ';controlled'; or ordered what to do.. They want to prove they can make their own decisions and that they will make the decisions they think live up to their OWN personal morals they set for themselves..
Because they are still developing and their hormones are still all over the place, and sometime people make it worse.
I would not say that all teenagers have a hard time with moral issues. Most may, but there are a few who do not. For an example, I'm fourteen and I can honestly say I have strict morals which i abide by. I do not fall for peer pressure because I am strongly attached to my own morals.
Feeling of guilt due to ignorance .
because they are IMMATURE





brain is not finished developing until 25
becuz we r stuck midway between adulthood n childhood......not tooo big not too small......n v hav r own problems to solve rather than thinking bout moral issues.......being a teenager myself...all i can say is that v r confused bout r feelings n we cant get ppl 2 understand us

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