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Teenagers |
16 November 2004 |
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 do they need as much parental care as toddlers?
A recent report has shown that the rate of mental illness in teenagers has risen substantially in the last 25 years. It’s a commonly held belief that young people today are more badly behaved and more troubled by emotional difficulties than in the past.
So why are teenagers having such a hard time? Could it be that they need far more parental attention than we have grown to think?
Jenni discusses the issues with 18-year-old Annabel McLeod, Mary MacLeod, Chief Executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute and Philip Graham, child psychiatrist and author of The End of Adolescence.
Email us your comments for tomorrow's phone-in
The End of Adolescence, Oxford Medical Publications, ISBN 0-19-852624-5
NFPI
Teens site
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