Magazines like Seventeen create as Hamburg (1992) suggests, a "future generation in crisis." This generation is one where teens do not know where to turn for advice on real life issues. Rather than look at home, many turn elsewhere. Many teens fail to recognize the difference between what is real and what is imagined. Magazine editors should take note. What they print dramatically influences the behavior of young adults (Chapin, 2000; Hamburg, 1992; Kaplan & Cole, 2003). Minorities especially need to read material that promotes their ethnicity, varying cultural beliefs and changing bodies, so they do not feel like outsiders when their bodies do not compare to the images presented in popular media like Seventeen...

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