CYP Now - Feature - What it's like to be young today

Fed up of hearing what adults think about the lives of young people in 21st century Britain, a team of four young reporters set out to interview their peers to find out what it is really like to grow up in this country.

- Abi, 16, Birmingham

Abi's life has been changed by the birth of her son last year: "I was happy because I was going to have a baby, but I was sad because it was going to have loads of consequences. I can't go back to education and I lost most of my family - they stopped talking to me and my mum because my mum was supporting me."

Abi believes in God but she isn't religious. Her son, Ricardo, who is a year old, is going to get christened soon though. "His dad's a Christian and goes to church every Sunday. If my son wants to go, I'm not going to stop him. I think it will help him."

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