Interesting study on adolescent mental health.

Things that don't help: parental education, income, or race.

Things that do help: firm boundaries, love and attention, parents who believe in marriage.

Hard Right parents have the best adolescent mental health outcomes, but Hard Left can be good too.

In-This-House-We-Believe Neoliberals make the worst parents.

I can hear you all saying "Duh!": but good luck getting this kind of research taught in schools, accepted by social workers, seriously debated by policy-makers, or funded by most grant-making bodies.

https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/briefs/ifs-gallup-parentingteenmentalhealthnov2023.pdf