Françoise Dolto used to say that the teenager is like a lobster during the time it changes its shell: exposed to all dangers and the need to construct a new shell.

To help teenagers complete this transformation, which is like a second birth, Françoise Dolto, her daughter Catherine Dolto-Tolitch, and Colette Persemini wrote this book. It is primarily addressed to you teenagers (to you lobsters). But it can also pass into the hands of everyone, circulate in the home, so that all - children, parents, young people, and adults - can read it and benefit.

The book Teenagers - Problems and Concerns offers ideas that help you out of difficult situations, discussing everyday issues that are often silenced or have unpleasant consequences: friendship, love, sexuality, violence, drugs, shame, parents, and adults.

It highlights the pitfalls and gives strength to help you make choices, take risks that lead to responsibility and autonomy. It also helps parents to detach from their children with less pain and more respect.

This book aims to celebrate the power of teenagers' lives, their ability to discover the future, because - as Fr. Dolto said - "society will change under the pressure of the young."

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]