#teen

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#also #become #birth #bonding #break

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#benefit #country #future #ideology #important

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#bonds #challenging #children #develop #especially

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. ↗

— Luke Ford

#allowed #any #attractive #because #decided

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. ↗

— George Foreman

#hard #hard life #house #idea #kids

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#did #fun #i #imagine #making

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#country #i #mexico #slowly #teenager

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#came #complete #divorce #eighteen #happens

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#friends #had #i #same #teen years