Issues and themes:
Growing up: self discovery, search for identity, personal values, accepting personal responsibility.
Relationships: family, friends, lovers, parent/child across generations; father/daughter/ grandmother/mother/daughter; boyfriend/girlfriend; parental expectations.
Changing gender roles and expectations, changing responsibilities.
Conflict between cultural traditions and values and contemporaey Australian popular culture; links within an ethic community and across the wider muliticultural community. Dealing with prejudice. Crossing bounderies between cultures, wealth and class. Conflicts between doctrinal and personal religious beliefs.
Contemporary issues in adolescence; falling in love; illegitimacy; alcohol and drugs; violence; peer pressures; private/public schools; snobbery.
Career and lifestyle choices, education.
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