" ... Should we look forward to the future, like going to college or university and spending thousands of dollars to hope when you're finished you will get a good job? Why should I save up for something when it could be blown away in 30 minutes anytime by a Nuclear War?"

"...concern is peer pressure to be on drugs or alcohol, to be able to cope with life by using your decisions and not everyone else's ideas."

" Having friends when you need them... they listen to what you have to say and then they don't laugh or condemn you for saying it."

"What is going to happen to our natural resources, are they going to run out?"

"I have four more years to go until I am considered an adult, ... until I have a great number of responsibilities... The economy seems so bleak that I wonder whether we can afford to be independent from our parents."

"Most parents don't like talking about sex, but ... if they leave it up to the school, by that time most teenagers have had intercourse, not knowing that they could risk getting pregnant. "

"I remember when I was a little kid when ice cream cones were 25¢. Now they are close to a dollar ... Is there any chance for inflation to go down in the future?"

"You get pretty racked up when your parents are separated or divorced. It's like living in two different worlds, one with each parent."

"Pollution is another major problem ... the largest concerns are: toxic waste, acid rain and just plain garbage.

"In this screwed-up society one man has the power to blow us humans and their whole history and existence."

"I think drugs are a main concern because these pills or powder can kill you."

"Sex gets you into trouble because it could get girls pregnant and that isn't right for a young girl to be carrying a child when she is a child herself."

"With the high rate of unemployment, how do we know we'll find a job to support ourselves?"

"Many young people can not cope with their life and social problems and they can't know how to get help, and they end up killing themselves because they don't see any other solution to their problems."

"It is a shame that while the 'western' world has enough food to drown anyone, that there are countries starving ... because of our selfishness and most of it is wasted in one way or another."