time-poor parents, lack of ritual and tradition, spiritual anorexia, mixed media messages (be sexy - but be good), and higher expectations in terms of material possessions, academic performance and career choices, and the adolescents of 2004 are arguably the most vulnerable generation Australia has ever seen.
These are the words of Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, an adolescent psychologist at the Albert Road Centre for Health, from an interesting and thought provoking article in The Age a couple of days ago. If you have an adolescent or younger child then it will prove to be a good investment of 5 minutes to read it.
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