To Be a Teen's Parent Is to Worry, If Not Always About the Right Things

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Last month in these pages, we discussed a study showing that teenagers are largely a well-adjusted bunch. Other polls in recent years have made the same point. This suggests a possible corollary: Are parents of teens not the nervous wrecks that popular stereotype depicts them to be? Actually, the story is mixed, to judge from a poll by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

The survey notes a disconnect between parental fears and teenagers’ own sense of peril.

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