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In some ways, adolescents in the U.S. are safer today than their parents and grandparents at the same ages.

They are less likely to face the unintended consequences of sex because they're waiting longer to start,

and they're doing a lot less binge drinking and drunk driving than previous generations.

If their parents suggest they just stay home and out of harm's way, they're less likely to argue or to agree and then sneak out once the grownups are asleep.

That's all good news. The bad news, as a group, they are far more likely than their predecessors

to experience mental health problems severe enough to land them in the emergency room anyway.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

Something has fundamentally changed about this transition phase

between childhood and adulthood.

My guest, who is raising two children,

headed for this phase of life themselves,

wanted to understand why.

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