American Teen
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 : By Larry Farlow
Al Mohler provides a review this week of the new documentary “American Teen” which was released in a limited number of theaters back in July. The film purports to be a look at what goes on among teenagers in a typical American high school, in this case in Warsaw, Indiana.
It seems to follow the cultural party-line that adolescence is a period where misbehavior is just to be expected. Mohler puts it this way:
Over the past several decades, adolescent psychologists have supplied the concept of the identity crisis as the therapeutic framework for expecting teenagers to misbehave. American Teen follows in this tradition. The general idea is that adolescent Sturm und Drang is just to
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