1. What are the ways communities try to help teenagers like Annie? Are any of these ways successful?

2. What efforts are there to prevent child abuse? Which work best? Why?

3. How common is homelessness for teenagers in the United States or Canada?

Why are the teenagers homeless? Can they be helped?

4. Teenaged motherhood and fatherhood is considered a great social problem by many people in government and in social charities. Why do they think it is a problem? What are they doing to fix the problem? What do teenagers themselves have to do to fix the problem?

5. How accurate is the portrayal of Annie as a representative of abused children? As a teenaged mother? As a drug abuser?

6. What do psychologists say are the longterm effects of child abuse?

7. Why are abused children often blamed for the abuse? Why do the...