With the increase in popularity of technology, the mass media has conveyed the image of "cool", an overly sexualized subculture and the strained relationship between this generation of teenagers and their parents, the dynamic of young has changed in society today. Growth expectations are stimulated, adolescents are asked, they are expected to grow faster and enter the world of adulthood before they are truly prepared to face the real world challenges that this change brings. The British TV show Skins, recently adapted into an American version by MTV, describes just what makes teenagers feel forced to grow up so quickly, and how they behave when the world they enter isn't like what they expected. The main reasons for this change can be narrowed down to fit three categories, although the categories look more like a Venn diagram than a spreadsheet. In the television series justifications for the general statement that this generation is growing up too quickly can be found in the role of sex and sexuality in society, through the lens of technology and mass media, both in the way it challenges our relationships both in the way it makes the standards of cool and perfect impossible, the role of the older generation, the characters' parents, the way they interact with their children, and the repercussions of a strained relationship. It is through these main ideas that light can be shed on the question: when do children stop being children? While the teenagers in the television series are all technically adults, at the start of the show they all attend the same commuter college, still live in their parents' house, and need their parents' support, perhaps more than ever at this time in their lives. , as they try to fill the… middle of the paper… the next. The social implications of adolescents growing too quickly are discussed and how the causes of this sudden gap in maturation time can be traced back to certain sources, sources that turned out to be exactly what I was looking for while writing this article. Future Sources: There are many sources on the generation gap and the effects the relationship between parents and children has that I have not yet explored. I would like to find more child and adolescent psychology, which delves into the importance of a strong and healthy parental relationship compared to that of an absent parent, a missing parent, an elderly parent, etc. I feel like I haven't focused enough on how important this relationship is, especially when I started to realize how prevalent the topic is within the show, and I feel like it's something I'd like to delve deeper into.