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Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By Clare D. Smith Going Steady Popular With Teenagers VfllMr TTArw" J f school, doesn't mean my U Acrrc ( AND ITS on shouldn't HAS ITS t I rrrn dmkitc Jt seems t0 me 11131 the kids k DRAWBACKS A POINTS miss out on a lot of fun. I've ?Si r ....ii" 'T -a"-" TOO known teenage boys to turn down I I jrZZ : : 1 " Invitations to dances and parties V k : i! h "iSl, F' because thelr "steady" wasn't in- 1 f nM I. ( (Ti J '"' vlted- The same ls true ot 6irls- n v M dr' " ' I believe this current trend con- 1 (. vJ fines youngsters to a narrow circle r 4 a n v I " I 1 ot friends, and I don't think this rl is g00d' V f ' so' 80 Per cent of these friend- -t ' A iX ships must be broken up when L i nil. high scho1 is finished. The boy .'ii V-T "Tk vV " " 8oes to one college, the girl to i f I N Vj"1 f Jk . another. There is likely to be a It must be exasperating to teen- criticism of the teenage fad of period of unhappiness in such agers to have their parents con- going steady. Most of them never cases. tinually saying: "Well, when I was give specific reason, they just say I would like to hear other views your age I didn't do that." This "we didn't do it, ' thus Implying on the subject, from both parents seems to imply that if the parents their children shouldn't. and teenagers. What do you think? didn't da it when young, then it's Personally, I can't decide whth- I( y h.T, lftn. problem r wrong for the offspring to do it. er this "going steady" Is good or JV'SddrV.VonVi't.ToR'TNB Several of my friends have ex- bad for the youngsters. But just about teenagers, national fcausted my patience with their because I didn't "go steady" when raA0BT.Eit!?APtH stBVRl;' |