Finding Carter is an American teen drama television series that debuted on MTV on July 8, 2014. The series follows Carter, who lives with her single mother, Lori. After a thought to be innocent prank lands Carter in jail with her friends, it is discovered that Lori abducted Carter from her own front yard as a child. Now, 16-year-old Carter is returned to her biological parents accompanied by her goody-two-shoes twin sister, Taylor and younger brother and comedic relief, Grant. She must navigate through her new life while vowing to be eventually reunited with Lori. However, Carter's biological mom, Elizabeth, a detective for the local police department, is determined to punish the woman responsible for kidnapping her child thirteen years earlier
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The show wouldn’t have happened without Carter breaking the law and getting arrested to begin with. “Finding Carter” is full of rebellious teens going against their parents and participating in underage drinking, partying, drugs, sex, etc. During this episode, you see Carter, working illegally for Jared at his bar and hosting parties that she isn’t even old enough to attend, Ben and Jared dealing drugs to make extra money to pay for other illegal things that Jared has been involved in, Bird finds out that she is pregnant after Seth dies and all of this is happening behind David’s back while he is away on a book tour. There is rejection of authority present with parents and the law. The kids at this underground church party are rejecting the authority of the law but drinking underage and doing illegal drugs. Jared and Carter are also rejecting the authority of law but hosting the underground party that underage kids can attend. Carter is also rejecting the authority of her parents by being with Jared, working at his bar, living with him in his apartment and hosting the parties after Elizabeth told her to stop being involved with Jared because she walked in on Carter stuffing stacks of money she had made throwing the parties into a duffle bag to take to
The show wouldn’t have happened without Carter breaking the law and getting arrested to begin with. “Finding Carter” is full of rebellious teens going against their parents and participating in underage drinking, partying, drugs, sex, etc. During this episode, you see Carter, working illegally for Jared at his bar and hosting parties that she isn’t even old enough to attend, Ben and Jared dealing drugs to make extra money to pay for other illegal things that Jared has been involved in, Bird finds out that she is pregnant after Seth dies and all of this is happening behind David’s back while he is away on a book tour. There is rejection of authority present with parents and the law. The kids at this underground church party are rejecting the authority of the law but drinking underage and doing illegal drugs. Jared and Carter are also rejecting the authority of law but hosting the underground party that underage kids can attend. Carter is also rejecting the authority of her parents by being with Jared, working at his bar, living with him in his apartment and hosting the parties after Elizabeth told her to stop being involved with Jared because she walked in on Carter stuffing stacks of money she had made throwing the parties into a duffle bag to take to