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All this week Breakfast will be Talking Teenagers, exploring the issues that affect young people growing up in the 21st Century. We'll be looking at some of the problems facing young people and their parents.
The series runs all week on Breakfast.
Today we unveil the results of a survey launched in the summer to find out more about the relationships between teenagers and parents.
We talked to broadcaster Mike Read and Dr John Coleman, Director of The Trust for the Study of Adolescence. He devised the teen survey.
We also spoke to two members of the Talking Teenagers Parent and Teen panels - Juliet Whiting and Jordan Rochester. Thousands of families took part in the survey, there is a summary of its findings just below:
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Survey findings
Forget moody teenagers it's moody parents that are the problem according to a BBCi study. Thousands of parents and teens took part in the 'Talking Teenagers' survey making it one of the biggest ever snapshots of teens and parents attitudes.
When asked what the worst thing about their parents was: 41% of teens said 'their moods', and 28% 'their dress sense', but despite that they still wouldn't be without them.
 Dress sense is important |
More than 50% said the best thing about parents was 'the way they show their love for me' closely followed by 'the money they give me' although they also appreciated their parents sense of humour! But while the relationship between many parents and teens was pretty good there were still areas both sides worried about. More than half of the teens felt they got a bad press and that being stereotyped was one of the hardest things about being a teenager. As for being appreciated, Only 13% felt that society valued them. Parents were more worried about exams and schoolwork than teens and both expressed concerns about peer pressure and talking about sex and relationships. Dr John Coleman says that over 30,000 teenagers and 12,000 parents responded making it one of the biggest ever surveys into family life.
Over half the results were analysed but there were too many to look at them all. Geographically there was an even spread across the country, however more teenage girls filled in the survey than boys.
Most teens were aged between 14-16, with a 15% non-white response. Over half the parents who filled in the survey are in their 40s, with only 15% over 50.
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