Teenage Independence: Why Teens Reject Authority | Anxiety Specialist | @caroline-cavanagh

What we tend to see, especially in boys, is when they break away from that dependence, they get very lonely. It's quite hard out there when that safety net that you call the parents is no longer someone that you want to rely on. So boys tend to group together and you'll see a lot of gangs of boys in that kind of mid-phase, 14, 15, 16. But you don't tend to see it nearly as much in the early 20s, in the early adult phase, because that independence is there. They no longer need the safety net that other boys can bring. And bringing in my own lived experience, I had a very religious upbringing, uh, would have to go to church twice on Sundays. And I hit those early teenage years and my mum and I would have some quite heated discussions about going to church on a, on a Sunday morning. But now I have all of those same values. I haven't rejected any of them. I've just made them mine.