Lifestories: Families in Crisis - Season 1 (1992)

A ten-year-old boy is accidentally killed when he and a friend play with a gun.

13-year-old Joey DiPaolo has to deal with the public discovering he has AIDS.

A young woman is the victim of date rape.

A teen kills an 18-year-old girl while driving drunk. As part of his punishment, her parents request that he send them one dollar a week for the next eighteen years.

Two H.S. girls go to the prom together.

Aaron Henry is a high school football player who constantly pushes himself to be the best. When working out at the gym trying to build up definition, he meets Bryce, who turns him on to using steroids to give him the body he wants. When Aaron starts seeing results, He steals money from his mother to pay Bryce for more steroids. Aaron starts developing "roid rage" and goes crazy at the simplest of things, and he pays the price for it.

An eleven-year-old boy becomes an activist for the homeless in his community.

A young boy has been sexually abused by a priest and never told anybody about what happened.

A group of teens stage an intervention for a friend who is abusing alcohol and drugs.

A teen drops out of school, joins a gang, and begins dealing drugs. Eventually, a gunshot wound confines him to a wheelchair.

Kim Frey narrates her own story, detailing how a brief romantic relationship in college resulted in a diagnosis of HIV.

A terminally ill teenage boy sues for the right to stop his medical treatment.