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A Brief Note On ' Betrayal And Trust ' Essay

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Betrayal and trust During adolescence, teenagers want to become independent and often times do not tell their parents where they are off to in the evening. They leave their parents in the dust, who await their arrival in the night if it is past curfew. Teenagers make irresponsible decisions because their pre-frontal cortex is not fully developed. Neuroscientists have determined that the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in our brains regulates our choices (Nauert, 2011). There is a 60% difference between drug use among children of intact families and children of drug users (Black, 2016). Divorce leads to disaster and the numbers are parallel there as well. It is incredible how a parent can condone children easily if they are honest. David states, “I am packing an overnight bag for him and look for a sweater in his backpack. I do not find the sweater, but instead discover a small bag of marijuana” (56). Parents can never really tell where their teenager is off to, because they lie, and the naive parents bite the bait. The bag of marijuana is a metaphor for a can of worms because once Nic is exposed to marijuana, it leads him to try more drugs as he grows up. Later in the book, Nic later confesses to David that his initial exposure to drugs was alcohol when he was alone in the house and with friends from high school at the time. “Each new betrayal brings with it a new eruption of emotions” (199) because trust is built over a lifetime and it can be broken in

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