"There were no "teenagers" before World War II. Ask
those still living who raised their children before then. Or spend a rainy
Saturday in the basement of your library, comparing old Life magazines from
before the War and after.
"Instead of Teenagers, there were Youths. Youths were
young people who wanted to become adults. However confused, wayward, or silly
they acted, however many mistakes they made, they looked to the future, wanted
to make it different from their youth, and planned to. They were aware that
life is more than youth. The Teenager has no such horizon. Beyond the "Teeny"
world there is no adult life, no past with heroes, no future with goals."
Novelty of Teenager 
