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Collier, James. The Hard Life of the Teenager. New York: Four Winds Press 1972. 187 pages. This book has very real, accurate, and detailed accounts and examples of why the adolescent is usually rebellious, confused, lonely, and depressed st this period of tim ....

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.... of what is the truth. Collier also uses Freud's theory that everything that happens has a cause, he could not believe that things "just happen." Further in the book Collier describes the pecking orde3r, which is the birth order of siblings, in which the oldest usually commands or dicates the activities of younger siblings. Once again Collier gives examples as; that white people felt they were supreme over black people. in another chapter Collier speaks of war between parents and children. The book explains why children think and say that they feel their parents are ignorant of their feelings for who they are, or that teenagers know what they ....