Throughout the article, "Adolescence: Whose Hell is It?" by Virginia Rutter, there is an astonishing analysis on the way teens behave today and how parents are responding to their behavior in return. Rutter points out that as the adolescent rates of depression, suicide, substance abuse, delinquency, sexual activity, and health problems drastically increase, there are too few parents who are responding to the needs of their adolescent children. Parents are clearly the most influential models outside of the school, which can altar the amount of success in the classroom. The author discusses how adolescents are emotionally and mentally separate from...
of the most effective outlets to increase values, academic success, and confidence within peer relationships. "The role of parents is to socialize children, to help them become responsible adults, to teach them to d the right thing. Conflict is an inevitable part of it" Rutter 121. However, It seems the worst possible thing a parent could do is to withdrawal from the relationship of their adolescent child.

Overall, it seems that communication is the key to a healthy relationship for both the parent and adolescent child so that they both can change without too much social and psychological stress.