Do the media, parents, peers pressurise teenagers 16-18 to get a relationship too much?

It depends. I don't think the media pressure teenagers into relationships. Peer pressure does though. I think that when loads of the other kids in your grade are in relationships, it puts pressure on you to be in one too, so you don't feel left out or like there's something wrong with you. I think that some parents do - it depends on the parents and their attitudes to relationships. Some parents place no pressure on their child at all, and are probably much happier that their teenager isn't in a relationship, whilst other's can be more of an influence. Personally, I felt pressured by my father and my grandmother, because every time I saw them from the age of about 14 they'd ask me 'have you got a boyfriend yet?', and every time I had to say no it made me feel awkward and ugly and like there was something wrong with me, like i'd failed somehow, like i wasn't good enough. I wanted to be able to say yes.
 
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