With the growing popularity of technology, the media has propagated an image of "cool", an oversexualized subculture and the strained relationship between this generation of adolescents and their parents, youth dynamics today in society. has changed. Growth expectations are propelled, adolescents are asked to grow up faster and enter the world of adulthood before they are truly prepared to face the real-world challenges that this change entails. The British television show Skins, recently adapted into an American version on MTV, describes exactly what makes teenagers feel like they have to grow up so quickly, and how they behave when the world they enter has no nothing like what they expected. three categories, although the categories look more like a Venn diagram than a spreadsheet. In the television series, justifications for the general assertion that this generation is growing up too fast can be found in the role of sex and sexuality in society, through the prism of technology and mass media, at the both in the way it strains our relationships and in the way it makes standards of cool and perfect impossible, and the role of that of the older generation, the characters' parents, the way they interact with their children and the repercussions of a strained relationship. It is through these main ideas that the question can be illuminated: when do children stop being children? While the teenagers in the TV series are all technically adults, at the start of the series they all attend the same suburban college, they still live in their parents' household and need parental support, perhaps more than ever. at this point in their lives, as they try to fill the... middle of paper ......the next one. He discusses the social implications of adolescents growing up too quickly and how the causes of this sudden gap in maturation time can be traced to certain sources, sources which turned out to be exactly what I was looking for in writing this article. Future Sources: There are many sources on the generation gap and the impact of the relationship between parents and children that I have not yet explored. I would like to explore more child and adolescent psychology that would delve deeper into the importance of a strong and healthy parental relationship versus that of an absent parent, a missing parent, a missing parent, older, etc. I feel like I haven't focused enough on how important this relationship is, especially as I've started to realize how prevalent the topic is in the show, and I think that's something something I would like to explore further..