Adolescence

Adolescence is the bridge between childhood and adulthood. In this phase in someones life, the person goes through many different changes. They also experience things that will determine what type of adult they become in the future. For example: someone that grows up in a hostile environment might end up hostile to everyone around them themselves whereas someone who grows up in a peaceful environment might end up believing that violence is never the answer. Everyone has there own personal and unique experience.
Teenagers have to cope with being too young and being too old at the same time. They can't do the same things they did when they were little, but they also can't do the same things that adults do. During this time, teenagers usually learn how to be responsible because they are given privileges that they were never given as a child. When responsibility comes into play, a fraction of childhood slips away from them because now they have something to worry about. They are no longer worry-free children.

PMRC

I do not believe that putting labels that warn parents about the contents in certain songs is censorship. Certainly it's not right, but it's not censorship either. Censorship would require not allowing an artist to make any type of music. The artists can still make whatever they want, they just need to have a label put on their albums. It would make some stores not want to sell them and some parents not want to buy them, but the alternative is to create a clean version where everyone would be fine with it. It would cost money, but every good artist or businessperson knows you have to spend money to make money. The artists are free to do whatever they want, the buyers are only warned. Therefore, it is NOT censorship.

Music

Music today is very different from the music in the past. Music evolves as time goes by, and so do teenagers. Usually, music is made according to the situation teenagers are going through. Music like Elvis in the past was according to the rebelliousness of the teenagers in that time period. Music today is also rebellious in some aspects, but in a different way. Music is pretty much just an update to piss off parents in a new way. Our parents love the music in the past (and might hate what we listen to now) and we love the music in the present (and might hate what our kids listen to in the future). It's a cycle of never ending rebelliousness.

Drinking

Teens drink to get drunk. That's the whole point, they don't usually like the taste of alcohol, but they do like the feeling they get when they drink. It's seen as fun when you can't control yourself as well as you can when you're sober. It's not a very good idea to drink as a teenager because teenagers are still mentally developing, and alcohol can affect the development in a bad way. Still, teens drink because of the fun they have and the peer pressure they're put under. It's a good idea to stop them from doing so, but it's pretty much impossible to stop every single teenager.

Articles

I think that the articles were very interesting because the first two pointed out something I never knew before: that the term adolescence was only recently invented. Teenagers didn't exist because of the fact that children automatically turned into adults at one point in their life. The most important factor into this creation is the newly developed social experiences children faced when going to school. These social experiences morphed the children into something other than adults: teenagers.
People can mature in two different ways: mentally and physically. The more important one of the two is obviously the mental aspect, and that determines whether or not you are an adult. In the past, people matured faster mentally than physically, so they became "adults" faster. Nowadays, people mature physically faster than they do mentally, and that's why teenagers look like adults but aren't accepted as adults yet.