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ROBERT EPSTEIN and his colleagues suggest that the primary cultural shifts that led to teen problems are those that cut them out of adult society and meaningful adultlike activity. In farming communities, where teens take on ever more responsibility for the family farm, or in craft communities where teens become apprentices, working along with adults, there is little if any evidence that the teenage years are more problematic than any other years. The problem, according to Epstein, is that we continue to treat teens as children long past the time when they are ready to be treated more like adults and be integrated into the adult world. We hold them back. CLICK HERE: petergray.substack.com/…