Jobs are difficult to find. Theres not so much money around. Things are more expensive, and its hard to find a place to live.
Teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics, and more interested in passing exams. They know that good exam results may get them better jobs.
Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend less and save more.
For some, the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for work in one of Britains big cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work, and stay. Others dont find it, and go home again, or join the many unemployed in London.
There used to be one kind of teenage fashion, one style, one top pop group. Then, the girls all wore mini-skirts and everyone danced to the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
But now an eighteen-year-old might be a punk, with green hair and chains round his legs, or a skin head, with short, short hair and right wing politics, or a rasta, with long uncombed hair and a love for Africa. Theres a lot of different music around too. Theres reggae, the West Indian sound, theres rock, theres heavy metal, country and western, and disco. All these kinds of music are played by different groups and listened to by different fans.
When you read the newspapers and watch the news on television, its easy to get the idea that British young people are all unemployed, angry and in trouble.
But thats not true. Three quarters of them do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, find some kind of work in the end, and get married in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents, a
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