2. Youth problems

  

 

Urgent - needing attention very soon, especially before anything else, because important;

 

Important - necessary or of great value;

 

Serious - severe in effect; bad;

 

Awful - extremely bad or unpleasant;

 

Shocking - a sudden, unexpected, and usually unpleasant;

 

Difficult to solve - not easy to find a way out;

 

Family problems - difficult situation, conflicts with the members of your family;

 

Personal problems - difficulties that you have in your personal life;

 

School problems - conflicts, difficult situations at school;

 

Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people;

 

Cruelty - cruel behaviour or a cruel action;

 

Drug addiction - addiction to natural or artificially made chemical that is taken for pleasure, to improve someone's performance of an activity, or because a person cannot stop using it;

 

Drinking problems - problems with alcohol, addicted to hot drinks;

 

Poverty - the condition of being extremely poor;

 

Discrimination - treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc;

 

Loneliness - the state of being lonely.