And actually, I'd say teens and adolescents are MORE likely to be open and communicative with each other. Maybe not with adults (I mean puh-leez!) but among each other, definitely!
They don't have all the pressure to be "grown-up" and "professional" and "appropriate" that we adults have. There's a lot of need for peer approval and fitting-in, but that can come from a lot of different things. The teens and young people I've known are DEFINITELY more open with their lives than adults generally are, once you've made it clear you're going to treat them as whole people, and not a work-in-progress.
Thus endeth the sermon.
