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Jane's Dysfunctional Family

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her home, she would not have been seeking love desperately from others and she would not have agreed to follow Ricky to a faraway city without her parent’s consent.

Jane’s experience is not so different from so many teenagers out there in the real world. Especially in the modern day, where people’s sense of beauty and confidence depends on the number of “likes” they get from friends. A dysfunctional family like Jane’s is a major reason why young people go out of their way to get love and validation, even from strangers. And the root cause of the problems in Jane’s family is the cost of the pursuit of the American Dream. To go after success in itself is not a bad thing, but compromising family, as in the case of Jane’s, has many obvious and

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