Teen Terror
Lucky's parents divorced bitterly when he was eight, and he became the caretaker of both his mother and his younger brother. To deal with his unhappiness, Lucky turned first to food and ballooned to 160 lbs. in the fifth and sixth grades. At 13, he substituted drugs. Eventually, he turned to theft and street violence. "I've broken all my knuckles," says the youth, now 16. "I get into blank rages where I don't even remember what happened."
Slow Suicide
Scott felt like a misfit at age 11, when his mother's remarriage took him from a lower-middle-class area to a...