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Teen running with the wrong crowd?

Teenage Mothers cuddle their babies in the dormitory at Prestige Teenage Mothers School in Subukia on March 13, 2022. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

As parents are busy chasing money, children are at home, many left to their own devices. Not bad if they have a structure to follow. However, all children struggle socially and falling into the wrong circle becomes very easy.

Once they find peer acceptance, they will do anything to fit in doing whatever it takes, even going against their parents’ wishes just to please their friends.

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