Prom is a rite of passage for American teens. It's also a ritual that fills far too many young people with anxiety.
That's what DoSomething.org, a nonprofit organization that gets youth involved in social change campaigns, discovered when it started researching how teens felt about prom. The organization found millions of Google search results related to prom anxiety.
Teens were taking their worries about drinking, sex, and rejection to the internet. Students of limited means agonized over the cost. LGBTQ youth were anxious about being forbidden to attend prom, particularly with a same-sex or gender-nonconforming date. Interracial couples feared discrimination, or had already experienced it. Read more...
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