s for 13 to 18 years. Before hitting the teenage years, most every person accepted just about everything taught by their parents as they had no reason not to believe in their parents, and also knew no better. As these teens begin to think, they find logic in new and different beliefs and find many old beliefs obsolete. Teens could be a major advantage to the human race if it were not for their tragic flaw in which they think that they have had so much experience in life that they are ready to handle it all and take on the world with their "vast knowledge of life". Although teens are far from perfect, they are still not treated to the best of the older generation's ability. The average teenager is "abused" by their elders. Teens are forced to do miscellaneous odd jobs not respectable to the human race. One may find a teenager doing such degradable chores ranging from taking out the garbage, doing the dishes, to sacking groceries at the local grocery store. Although for the most part teenagers are mistreated, being a teenager has its definite advantages. For in being a teenager, not much is mentally expected of you, for the elder generation has accepted the fact of the difference between them and the teen. As the elder generation was also forced to go through this demanding time in life, they realize how "difficult" it is, thus a teenager can practically get away with "murder". As the teenager can never fully be described because of their wide variety of qualities both mentally and physically, many people struggle to find out exactly why teenagers act as they do. As one may see, the differences of the teenager are quite obvious and contrasting to that of any other period in life. Adolescence is much like a midpoint in ones life; when a person is neither a kid nor an adult. At this period, teens have passed the age when they were called kids but are not yet qualified to be adults. Teenagers want to think like adults, behave like adults and...