Parents underestimate teen stress
Being a teen in the 1960s meant exposure to a war in Southeast Asia that was brought into the living room through the Evening News with Walter Cronkite, protest activity all over the country winding up with the shootings at Kent State May 4, 1970, attaining the American Dream with a chicken in every pot, and taking two salaries in the household to hold onto the dream. There were more separations and divorces. How long has the marriage success rate held at 50/50? Drug use wasn’t something that was talked about much. The ones who used and pushed drugs knew who NOT to talk to about it. A teen in the 2000s has been exposed to mass terrorism, war in the Middle East, nuclear threat, 24/7/365 news coverage on cable, both parents working and children coming home to an empty house. There is exposure to drugs, alcohol, abuse in all of its forms, and for too many, these activities are going on right in the children’s homes. “According to the 2007 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study of 6,511
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