Parents and caregivers voted for their TOP 3 issues, from a field of 28. We received 209 non-duplicative returns during September, octrober, and November 2000. As in the prior poll, the issue most frequently included as being among the TOP 3 for parents rearing teens and preteens is "bad attitude-lack of respect."

The Parenting and Teen Polls are run continuously at this site and results are posted quarterly. (Click on the underlined text to vote in current poll.)

Also as in the prior poll, in the current poll "academics" came in second and "lying" came in third.

See the bar graph showing the top 5 vote-getters for being among the top 3 parenting issues, broken down by:

• the total number of respondents
• mothers
• fathers
• stepparents and other caregivers

Results of Teen Poll.
Read list of issues written in ("other" choice on the Poll form).

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