Every era has some main characteristics, and they affect people who live in that time period in every aspect from worldviews to daily activities, including social problems. There is an excellently proper term, attributed to Hegel, about this set of characteristics: Zeitgeist, which means ‘spirit of the time’. Starting this point of view, it can be said that the problems experienced by teenagers are closely related to the characteristics of the era. Modernity is also another central concept to evaluate this issue. In terms of modernity, which is our zeitgeist and is characterized by secularism, capitalism and nation-state, teens have two fundamental problems: fatherlessness and consumerism. First and foremost, modernization caused the case of fatherlessness. Mustafa Özel says, ‘Modernity overthrowned three fathers: The father who i...