Ch. 3 Adolescent Diversity class notes

• limited alternatives (limited options for school to job limit opportunities, usually "stuck" physically and metaphorically)
• hopelessness/powerlessness
• deprivation/hardship (social toxicity, violence and lack of supervision associated with youth)
• Insecurity (at mercy of life's unpredictable events such as sickness, injury, family struggles, and so on)

lack of both parents leading to more stress and less parenting)

high rate of mental illness

minority adolescents

lots of discrimination and conforming to an inferior role with poverty twice as high as non-minority groups

lower chance of graduating from high school due to language barriers with a higher chance of suffering from ill health and lower chance of being insured (familialism emphasized)

culture conflict between their native reservations and the way of life in urban america in addition to low education, high unemployment and low income

value collectivism and are considered the "model minority"

family culture being potentially different from the majority social and media culture (mostly for minorities)