Most of the daughters in the present study were born during the 1950s and became teenagers during the 1970s.
This allowed the attitudes and reported behaviours to be compared between adults and teenagers from very similar backgrounds and settings.
A teenager who is perceived as too free-spirited, conspicuously bright, overly plump, or physically weak risks being targeted or ostracised from the peer group.
At the same time, teenagers - barred from the grilles because of their youth - established their own public dance spaces, called aguelulos.
I hoped that the teenagers would get ideas from, debate with and respond to each other.
Undoubtedly, a proportion of the non-marital pregnancies are accidental and unwanted, particularly in the case of teenagers.
This will include an increase in the degree of gender differentiation among the teenagers relative to preteens.
Indeed, for contemporary teenagers, individual singers or bands have much more meaning than genres.
