Today's teenagers have more stressful lives than previous generations.Discuss this view and give your own opinion?

No matter what the external circumstances, teens have always found ways to maximise their stress and dramatise their circumstances. It was like when I was growing up in the 1940s and 50s, and it's much the same now.

If anything, the switch from single income families to almost universal double-income families allows today's teens far more opportunity and material privilege than they could have expected in the past.

One of the problems today is the Internet. Kids are learning all manner of things which give them a wealth of information long before they are sufficiently experienced to assess what they've learned.

No, I don't think today's teens have more stressful lives than their forebears. At the same time, they are just as capable of falling through the cracks in society as the rest of us were.

This is not a new question of course. In 43 BCE a guy called Cicero wrote, "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents." Nothing much has changed over the intervening millennia.

When and where?

I am raising two . . . The stress of choosing a malleable profession is something of concern (The culture where you will change jobs almost ever 2-5 years once you have a chosen profession). Social media only has the "Hold" you LET IT HAVE. So although teens are more visible to their peers . . It is the level of "Care" that dictates the stress.

If anything, parents are FAR more involved in a teenager's life. There are way more enabled and dependent children now then there was in the past. Children ask for help RATHER then consider the trouble a "Learning Experience" . . . Parents need to learn to "Let Go" and the child stumble a bit rather then run over to catch them "just in case they fall" . . . 

If teenagers are stressed . . . It is a taught reaction.