Jealous Zach Young

Zach Young is the most troubled oh the teens on Wisteria Lane, not that he doesn't have a competition. Brooding, moody, and mysterious, he is a shy kid who radiates strangeness and insecurity. He wears a side part and wire-rimmed glasses and rarely ever smiles. But it's easy to be sympathetic to him for two good reasons: He has a strange dad, and he lost his mother at a very young age. Since his Mary Alice's death, Zach has seemed unsettled and confused, believing that he accidentally killed his baby sister, Dana. It's revealed later, of course, the he's wrong and his parents have tolls him lies to cover up for their own crime. Who wouldn't be weird with a childhood like that, believing he was a murderer only to find out that his parents were instead? Zach may seem to be the outcast of Wisteria Lane teens, but it is not without a reason. And he is far braver and stronger than most privileged counterparts who have not had to deal with the family troubles he own drummer, and has little tolerance for the banalities of everyday conversation. He wears his strangeness like a badge of honor, which makes him oddly likeable.

Julie Mayer

Julie Mayer is her mother's daughter in more ways than one. Both Susan and Julie are extremely compassionate, often putting other people's needs before their own. They have a tendency to fall for troubled men and a hard time unraveling themselves from destructive relationships. Bit if anyone is the more levelheaded of the two it is Julie, who tends to mother her own mother. Like many kids of single moms, Julie often feels more like Susan's friend than her daughter, which creates problems when Susan feels the need to assert who's in charge. When Susan and Karl got a divorced, Julie found herself playing shrink, best friend, and scheduler all at once. The relationship between Julie and Susan is one of the most convincing and relatable on the show. Julie is a precocious teenager who teases her mom about never getting guys. Julie is a bright and self-sufficient and extremely mature for her age.

 Andrew Van de Kamp

If there was an award for the most unhappy teen on Westeria Lane, Andrew would win by far. A tempestuous troublemaker with an alcohol addiction, a pot habit, a lack of moral conviction and a confused sexuality, Andrew has spent the first season creating problems for his family. When his parents announced their separation, Andrew blames his mother. But after a fight with Rex over whether he can live with him, Andrew drinks too much and accidentally runs over Juanita Solis. While other kids' parents would turn them in to the police, Andrew's parents cover him. And instead of feeling guilty he feels of the hook. Andrew is angry at everyone around him, but like most boys he tends to take most of his anger out on his mom. He yells at her, humiliates her in front of George, shoves her, even spits in her face. It is only after trying unsuccessfully to discipline him on their own that Bree and Rex finally send him to a boot camp for troubled teen. Finally Andrew begins to confront his sexuality, but he is in for quite a ride.

Danielle Van de Kamp

Danielle Van de Kamp is a women on the verge. Like many teenaged girls, she finds that her mother seems to stand in the way of everything she wants. She dreams of becoming a model but when an opportunity arises, her mother sabotages it. Despite her sarcastic demeanor and her habit of mouthing off to her parents, she loves them and wishes they would stay together. A typical vain teenager, Danielle has a tendancy to brush her hair in the midist of the worst family conflicts and ignores familial strife until it affects her, like when her mother makes the bed before taking Rex to the hospital and sees firsthand just how unstable Bree really is.

Porter, Preston, Parker, & Penny

The four Scavo children, Porter, Preston, Parker, and Penny, seem to exist to cause their parents aggravation. Incredibly hyperactive and prone to making trouble, the twins and their brother, Parker, drive Lynette and Tom to the brink. They make fortresses in the living room, throw balls in the house, pull the petals off the flowers, get bubblegum in their hair, catch lice, and generally do all that they can to misbehave. They steal from the neighbors, hide out where they shouldn't, run their grocery carts into innocent old ladies. They are loud and incredibly willful and seem to get a perverse charge out of disobeying their mother. Everyone knows kids like this, and every parent feels like they are raising Scavo kids on some days, but few are unlucky unenough to be hit with four of them in six years. As Lynette tries to stay sane in the face of craing for her imps.