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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko is the straightest example by this show's standards; he was emotionally and physically abused by his own father, which has left him with tons of angst and mixed feelings towards his father as well as himself. Several episodes indicate before he had his self-actualization in the third season that he was going through serious emotional turbulence.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko is the straightest example by this show's standards; he was emotionally and physically abused by his own father, which has left him with tons of angst and mixed feelings towards his father as well as himself. Several episodes indicate before he had his self-actualization in the third season that he was going through serious emotional turbulence.
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The adolescence years are tough on anyone but for some teens, it can be especially tumultuous, not just for the teen themselves, but for their family and friends that have to deal with their behavior. There are the typical teenage problems, dealing with changes in their bodies, mood swings, rebelling against parental figures, etc. But then there's the Troubled Teen. The Troubled Teen is a character whose problems are beyond the scope of typical teen problems; they're dealing with more serious emotional problems and may take part in risky actions, such as drug abuse, breaking the law, sexual promiscuity, etc. As opposed to TeensAreMonsters, these characters are treated sympathetically by the narrative, sometimes they are even the main character. Usual Troubled Teen characteristics include:
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The adolescence years are tough on anyone but for some teens, it can be especially tumultuous, not just for the teen themselves, but for their family and friends that who have to deal with their behavior. There are the typical teenage problems, [[HormoneAddledTeenager dealing with changes in their bodies, bodies]], mood swings, [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority rebelling against parental figures, figures]], etc. But then there's the Troubled Teen. The Troubled Teen is a character whose problems are beyond the scope of typical teen problems; they're dealing with more serious emotional problems and may take part in risky actions, such as drug abuse, breaking the law, sexual promiscuity, etc. As opposed to TeensAreMonsters, these characters are treated sympathetically by the narrative, sometimes they are even the main character. Usual Troubled Teen characteristics include:
* Getting in trouble with the law, having a juvenilerecords record miles long.
* Getting in trouble with the law, having a juvenile
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': Hiro Hamada is a TeenGenius who finished high school by age 14. However his intelligence isolates him from his peers, and he has taken up participating in illegal robot fights, which lands him in jail early in the movie. Then when it seems as if he will turn his life around and apply to college, his older brother dies, and Hiro becomes focused on getting revenge instead. He gets better at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* ''Fallen'' by Creator/LaurenKate: The main characters meet in Sword&Cross Reform School--although only Luce and Todd are actually teenagers, the rest are fallen angels just pretending to be troubled teens.
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* ''Series/CaitlinsWay'''s main character Caitlin was orphaned as a kid, and spent years in and out of foster homes, living on the streets, and getting arrested. The series kicks off when she's giving the choice between living in Montana with distant family or juvie.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': This trope have Subverted in the Protagonist. Who case of ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the protagonist character was blamed for abuse abusing a woman, while in reality he protect woman and from that point, carries around a reputation that he's troubled and reckless. [[spoiler: When what ''really'' happened was the protagonist protected the woman from a drunk man. And the man, a drunk man is a who was also powerful politician.]] Also subverted with the most of the cast that have reputations, but are otherwise well-adjusted.
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* ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'': Ashley has to deal with a deceased mom and a dad who only came back into her life when she was fourteen and is still struggling to be a proper parent.
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* {{Parodied| trope}} on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman'' with Dwight, the Troubled Teen. Dwight, played by Michael Zegen long before ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel'', was actually quite clean-cut looking and a little retro, and his troubledness amounted to a little unexplained moodiness.
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* Getting in trouble with the law, having a juvenile records miles long.
* Substance abuse.
* Dealing with mental illness, such as depression, suicidal ideation, and anger issues.
* A lack of respect and trust for authority.
Often times AbusiveParents or ParentalAbandonment play a part in why they're so troubled. If they're male, they're TroubledButCute. A regular staple in a TeenDrama and YoungAdultLiterature, often the subject of MiseryLit and/or the HoodFilm.
Compare and contrast EmoTeen, where teenagers overemphasize how much their life sucks to fit an {{emo}} aesthetic.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Chase Stein comes from an abusive home that included physical beatings and may have killed someone by accident and/or been molested by an HonoraryUncle ([[MultipleChoicePast he's been known to suppress some of his memories]].) Consequently, he has anger issues and can get hotheaded, which only get worse when his girlfriend Gert is suddenly murdered, sending him on a dark path for a while that almost ended in him making a DealWithTheDevil. He mellows out considerably in [[ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways the 2017 series]]; having to become Molly's legal guardian actually forces him to grow up a bit.
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* In the Marlys/Maybonne comics by Creator/LyndaBarry, Maybonne is a classic example. In various stories, she runs away from home, uses drugs and alcohol as a 14-year-old, and gets in a lot of bad relationships involving QuestionableConsent. Her friends behave similarly. This is explained by her home life, as she has a DisappearedDad and a mother who is cold, unloving, and often not around.
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* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' is about five teens who are various levels and forms of messed-up due to peer pressure and having parents that range from neglectful to physically abusive. The plot is about them bonding over their screwed-up lives while being under detention at school.
* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Andrew is this ''in spades.'' His life consists of an extremely abusive alcoholic father and a terminally ill bedridden mother and is frequently bullied at school, not to mention everything else that happens to him throughout the film, giving him serious mental issues. The fact that Andrew decides to keep it all bottled up until hitting his RageBreakingPoint instead of reaching out to talk to someone about it doesn't help matters either, ''especially'' after he acquires his powers.
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' is about three misfit teens with troubled home lives who find solace in each other. Could be the TropeCodifier on account of how old and influential it is.
* ''Film/ShortTerm12'' is about a temporary group home for at-risk youth. While most of the residents are troubled teens, the film focuses on two: Marcus, a suicidal seventeen-year-old who grew up with an abusive mother, and Jayden, an aloof young girl who self-harms and violently or verbally lashes out because her father is also abusive.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': Hiro Hamada is a TeenGenius who finished high school by age 14. However his intelligence isolates him from his peers, and he has taken up participating in illegal robot fights, which lands him in jail early in the movie. Then when it seems as if he will turn his life around and apply to college, his older brother dies, and Hiro becomes focused on getting revenge instead. He gets better at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* Author S.E. Hinton's ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' and it's sequels focus on teenage "greasers," each with a number of issues such as parental abandonment/abuse and all are looked down by their community for being in the lower socioeconomic bracket. Dallas is the most troubled, it was said in the book he started being jailed for criminal behavior at ''ten years old''.
* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'''s Melinda Sordino starts off 9th grade depressed and angry, outcast from her peers due to a calling the cops at a WildTeenParty, and soon enough, stops speaking entirely. [[spoiler: It's later revealed she was raped at that same party.]]
* Parodied in Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Young Adult Novel''. The Book Within a Book ''Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan'' loads on as many cliches as possible to its troubled teen protagonist Kevin, who, depending on the story, is a drug-addicted, alcoholic juvenile delinquent with no parents and an older sister who is in jail for prostitution. He [[TheyKilledKennyAgain frequently dies horribly but always gets brought back]].
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* Almost every single main character of ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' is this to a degree, the straightest examples are Justin (homeless and living on the streets, abuses drugs), Tyler (bullied and isolated as well as [[spoiler: being raped, and brings weapons to the school with the intent on causing a mass shooting]]), and Hannah (being torn down bit by bit by bullying [[spoiler: before being raped]] and later taking her life).
* ''Series/AllAmerican'' is about high school football player Spencer James spending his time between his lower income neighborhood and the ritzy Beverly Hills, but out of the main cast, it's the rich teens that are more troubled. Olivia abused prescription medication and was sent to rehab before the events of the series, and Layla suffers from depression and anxiety, much like her mother and was on the edge of suicide.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has Shawn Hunter, a kid who had a very rough upbringing (to say the least). His family situation was never stable, he's gotten in trouble with the law for vandalism, and it's hinted he's dealt with emotional turbulance and abandonment issues all throughout his childhood.
* ''Series/CaitlinsWay'''s main character Caitlin was orphaned as a kid, and spent years in and out of foster homes, living on the streets, and getting arrested. The series kicks off when she's giving the choice between living in Montana with distant family or juvie.
* The "Maternal Instincts" ([=S1E21=]) episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' features the son of the murdered victim and who is since getting in all sort of problems, who came to police to say he saw his mother being murdered.
* Naturally, ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has had quite a few Troubled Teens. Some are poor like Sean, who joins up with a gang of {{delinquents}} that steal for fun; some are rich, like Miles who abuses marijuana and prescription meds to deal with his emotional issues, most are male and of the TroubledButCute variety. Though there is Esme, a female student introduced in ''Degrassi: Next Class'' that is more troubled than all of them, as she is unstable and manipulative.
* In ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', most of the main cast are teens with some very bad problems. Rue is a reckless painkiller addict, Jules ReallyGetsAround, Cass is dating a college boy, Kat is running an underage webcam, Maddy is in an abusive relationship and keeps cheating on her extremely possessive boyfriend, and Nate is a ticking time bomb of rage and toxic masculinity.
* In ''Series/EverythingsGonnaBeOkay'', Genevieve Moss is struggling with the sudden loss of her father and resents her older siblings Nicholas and Matilda, and her repressed anger causes her to hang out with Tellulah and Barb, who goad her into doing stupid, risky things like drugs and sexting and picking a fight with a boy who supposedly raped Matilda. As the first season wears on, she eventually finds a healthier outlet for her energies by writing poetry.
* 2000s teen drama ''Series/HigherGround'' was centered around a rehabilitation school filled with Troubled Teens; all have dealt with issues such as parental neglect, drugs, and rape.
* ''Series/{{Moesha}}'' introduced Dorian, Moesha's cousin who ran away from home and constantly gets into trouble, trouble that's exasperated when [[spoiler: it's revealed that Dorian is actually Moesha's ''brother'', a secret her father Frank hid from family for years]]. From there, Dorian acts out even more, starts hanging around gangs and doing their dirty work, and steals a car from his father's car lot. By the end of season 5, Frank has had enough and sends Dorian to a juvenile boot camp to set him straight.
* Troubled teens are a recurring topic on talk show ''Series/{{Maury}}''; the teens are out of control, abuse drugs and alcohol, sexually promiscuous and are AlwaysFemale. A typical "troubled teen" episode includes the girl bragging about her terrible behavior, and then coming out to berate the audience in front of their sobbing parent. Often times, it's followed up by the teen either being sent to a juvenile boot camp or ''Series/BeyondScaredStraight''-type program.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' with Darlene; many episodes show her becoming withdrawn from her family, dressing in dark clothes and adopting a SnarkKnight personality. It's all but said that she's dealing with a depression, but as a lower-income family, they don't have the resources to help Darlene manage with it. As time goes on we see that she's actually spending time embracing her artistic and intellectual sides, becoming the first member of her family to go to college.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPt74CNBA4&list=PLKkUPESBcE9c1s7HXRLA-871Xn7JKFDGg "What's Wrong With Tanya?"]] is a game show where the contestants are concerned mothers from [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime movies]] who have to guess what's troubling their angsty teenage children. The troubles in question include eating disorders, illiteracy, pregnancy, and "going to those parties where girls do oral sex for bracelets".
* ''Series/{{SWAT|2017}}'': "Homecoming" involves Hondo being contacted by his old friend Leroy, presently serving a life sentence for being a senior member of the [[GangBangers 20 Street Hammers]], who upon hearing his son witnessed a shooting, fears Darryl is being dragged into the same gang culture he was at his age. Darryl proves to be a decent kid but is the victim of lack of opportunities and the culture he's growing up amongst. Hondo manages to arrange for him to live with aunt hoping to keep him out of the lifestyle. But upon his return in season two Darryl reveals he accidentally got his [[TeenPregnancy girlfriend pregnant]] and needing quick money to support her was forced to turn back to his old contacts. His actions only succeed in getting him sent to Juvie, where he is stabbed by another teenager. Hondo resorts to effectively adopting Darryl in the hopes of ensuring his life isn't ruined.
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* ''Theatre/BlackFriday'': Lex Foster is barely eighteen, and she's already developed a smoking habit, drinks, has dropped out of high school, and dislikes and distrusts all adults automatically. Given that her mother is an AlcoholicParent, her boss is a slimy creep, and the one teacher that seemed to believe in her quit his job recently, it's understandable. She does manage to hold down a SoulSuckingRetailJob, but it's solely so she can save money to run away to California with her boyfriend and her [[PromotionToParent little sister]] to become an actress. When the show begins, she's scheming to steal a hot-ticket item from the toy store she works at so she and her boyfriend can fund their trip by auctioning it off online for far more than it's worth.
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* Getting in trouble with the law, having a juvenile records miles long.
* Substance abuse.
* Dealing with mental illness, such as depression, suicidal ideation, and anger issues.
* A lack of respect and trust for authority.
Often times AbusiveParents or ParentalAbandonment play a part in why they're so troubled. If they're male, they're TroubledButCute. A regular staple in a TeenDrama and YoungAdultLiterature, often the subject of MiseryLit and/or the HoodFilm.
Compare and contrast EmoTeen, where teenagers overemphasize how much their life sucks to fit an {{emo}} aesthetic.
Also Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Chase Stein comes from an abusive home that included physical beatings and may have killed someone by accident and/or been molested by an HonoraryUncle ([[MultipleChoicePast he's been known to suppress some of his memories]].) Consequently, he has anger issues and can get hotheaded, which only get worse when his girlfriend Gert is suddenly murdered, sending him on a dark path for a while that almost ended in him making a DealWithTheDevil. He mellows out considerably in [[ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways the 2017 series]]; having to become Molly's legal guardian actually forces him to grow up a bit.
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* In the Marlys/Maybonne comics by Creator/LyndaBarry, Maybonne is a classic example. In various stories, she runs away from home, uses drugs and alcohol as a 14-year-old, and gets in a lot of bad relationships involving QuestionableConsent. Her friends behave similarly. This is explained by her home life, as she has a DisappearedDad and a mother who is cold, unloving, and often not around.
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* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' is about five teens who are various levels and forms of messed-up due to peer pressure and having parents that range from neglectful to physically abusive. The plot is about them bonding over their screwed-up lives while being under detention at school.
* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Andrew is this ''in spades.'' His life consists of an extremely abusive alcoholic father and a terminally ill bedridden mother and is frequently bullied at school, not to mention everything else that happens to him throughout the film, giving him serious mental issues. The fact that Andrew decides to keep it all bottled up until hitting his RageBreakingPoint instead of reaching out to talk to someone about it doesn't help matters either, ''especially'' after he acquires his powers.
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' is about three misfit teens with troubled home lives who find solace in each other. Could be the TropeCodifier on account of how old and influential it is.
* ''Film/ShortTerm12'' is about a temporary group home for at-risk youth. While most of the residents are troubled teens, the film focuses on two: Marcus, a suicidal seventeen-year-old who grew up with an abusive mother, and Jayden, an aloof young girl who self-harms and violently or verbally lashes out because her father is also abusive.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': Hiro Hamada is a TeenGenius who finished high school by age 14. However his intelligence isolates him from his peers, and he has taken up participating in illegal robot fights, which lands him in jail early in the movie. Then when it seems as if he will turn his life around and apply to college, his older brother dies, and Hiro becomes focused on getting revenge instead. He gets better at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Jim Hawkins starts as a teen delinquent, emotionally damaged by his father's abandonment. His first scene has him recklessly riding an hoverboard and getting arrested for it, and it's made clear that it is far from his first time getting in trouble with authorities.
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* Author S.E. Hinton's ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' and it's sequels focus on teenage "greasers," each with a number of issues such as parental abandonment/abuse and all are looked down by their community for being in the lower socioeconomic bracket. Dallas is the most troubled, it was said in the book he started being jailed for criminal behavior at ''ten years old''.
* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'''s Melinda Sordino starts off 9th grade depressed and angry, outcast from her peers due to a calling the cops at a WildTeenParty, and soon enough, stops speaking entirely. [[spoiler: It's later revealed she was raped at that same party.]]
* Parodied in Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Young Adult Novel''. The Book Within a Book ''Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan'' loads on as many cliches as possible to its troubled teen protagonist Kevin, who, depending on the story, is a drug-addicted, alcoholic juvenile delinquent with no parents and an older sister who is in jail for prostitution. He [[TheyKilledKennyAgain frequently dies horribly but always gets brought back]].
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* Almost every single main character of ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' is this to a degree, the straightest examples are Justin (homeless and living on the streets, abuses drugs), Tyler (bullied and isolated as well as [[spoiler: being raped, and brings weapons to the school with the intent on causing a mass shooting]]), and Hannah (being torn down bit by bit by bullying [[spoiler: before being raped]] and later taking her life).
* ''Series/AllAmerican'' is about high school football player Spencer James spending his time between his lower income neighborhood and the ritzy Beverly Hills, but out of the main cast, it's the rich teens that are more troubled. Olivia abused prescription medication and was sent to rehab before the events of the series, and Layla suffers from depression and anxiety, much like her mother and was on the edge of suicide.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has Shawn Hunter, a kid who had a very rough upbringing (to say the least). His family situation was never stable, he's gotten in trouble with the law for vandalism, and it's hinted he's dealt with emotional turbulance and abandonment issues all throughout his childhood.
* ''Series/CaitlinsWay'''s main character Caitlin was orphaned as a kid, and spent years in and out of foster homes, living on the streets, and getting arrested. The series kicks off when she's giving the choice between living in Montana with distant family or juvie.
* The "Maternal Instincts" ([=S1E21=]) episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' features the son of the murdered victim and who is since getting in all sort of problems, who came to police to say he saw his mother being murdered.
* Naturally, ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has had quite a few Troubled Teens. Some are poor like Sean, who joins up with a gang of {{delinquents}} that steal for fun; some are rich, like Miles who abuses marijuana and prescription meds to deal with his emotional issues, most are male and of the TroubledButCute variety. Though there is Esme, a female student introduced in ''Degrassi: Next Class'' that is more troubled than all of them, as she is unstable and manipulative.
* In ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', most of the main cast are teens with some very bad problems. Rue is a reckless painkiller addict, Jules ReallyGetsAround, Cass is dating a college boy, Kat is running an underage webcam, Maddy is in an abusive relationship and keeps cheating on her extremely possessive boyfriend, and Nate is a ticking time bomb of rage and toxic masculinity.
* In ''Series/EverythingsGonnaBeOkay'', Genevieve Moss is struggling with the sudden loss of her father and resents her older siblings Nicholas and Matilda, and her repressed anger causes her to hang out with Tellulah and Barb, who goad her into doing stupid, risky things like drugs and sexting and picking a fight with a boy who supposedly raped Matilda. As the first season wears on, she eventually finds a healthier outlet for her energies by writing poetry.
* 2000s teen drama ''Series/HigherGround'' was centered around a rehabilitation school filled with Troubled Teens; all have dealt with issues such as parental neglect, drugs, and rape.
* ''Series/{{Moesha}}'' introduced Dorian, Moesha's cousin who ran away from home and constantly gets into trouble, trouble that's exasperated when [[spoiler: it's revealed that Dorian is actually Moesha's ''brother'', a secret her father Frank hid from family for years]]. From there, Dorian acts out even more, starts hanging around gangs and doing their dirty work, and steals a car from his father's car lot. By the end of season 5, Frank has had enough and sends Dorian to a juvenile boot camp to set him straight.
* Troubled teens are a recurring topic on talk show ''Series/{{Maury}}''; the teens are out of control, abuse drugs and alcohol, sexually promiscuous and are AlwaysFemale. A typical "troubled teen" episode includes the girl bragging about her terrible behavior, and then coming out to berate the audience in front of their sobbing parent. Often times, it's followed up by the teen either being sent to a juvenile boot camp or ''Series/BeyondScaredStraight''-type program.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' with Darlene; many episodes show her becoming withdrawn from her family, dressing in dark clothes and adopting a SnarkKnight personality. It's all but said that she's dealing with a depression, but as a lower-income family, they don't have the resources to help Darlene manage with it. As time goes on we see that she's actually spending time embracing her artistic and intellectual sides, becoming the first member of her family to go to college.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPt74CNBA4&list=PLKkUPESBcE9c1s7HXRLA-871Xn7JKFDGg "What's Wrong With Tanya?"]] is a game show where the contestants are concerned mothers from [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime movies]] who have to guess what's troubling their angsty teenage children. The troubles in question include eating disorders, illiteracy, pregnancy, and "going to those parties where girls do oral sex for bracelets".
* ''Series/{{SWAT|2017}}'': "Homecoming" involves Hondo being contacted by his old friend Leroy, presently serving a life sentence for being a senior member of the [[GangBangers 20 Street Hammers]], who upon hearing his son witnessed a shooting, fears Darryl is being dragged into the same gang culture he was at his age. Darryl proves to be a decent kid but is the victim of lack of opportunities and the culture he's growing up amongst. Hondo manages to arrange for him to live with aunt hoping to keep him out of the lifestyle. But upon his return in season two Darryl reveals he accidentally got his [[TeenPregnancy girlfriend pregnant]] and needing quick money to support her was forced to turn back to his old contacts. His actions only succeed in getting him sent to Juvie, where he is stabbed by another teenager. Hondo resorts to effectively adopting Darryl in the hopes of ensuring his life isn't ruined.
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* ''Theatre/BlackFriday'': Lex Foster is barely eighteen, and she's already developed a smoking habit, drinks, has dropped out of high school, and dislikes and distrusts all adults automatically. Given that her mother is an AlcoholicParent, her boss is a slimy creep, and the one teacher that seemed to believe in her quit his job recently, it's understandable. She does manage to hold down a SoulSuckingRetailJob, but it's solely so she can save money to run away to California with her boyfriend and her [[PromotionToParent little sister]] to become an actress. When the show begins, she's scheming to steal a hot-ticket item from the toy store she works at so she and her boyfriend can fund their trip by auctioning it off online for far more than it's worth.
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