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Guest Essay

By Esau McCaulley

Contributing Opinion Writer

Early in the first episode of the four-part Netflix series “Adolescence,” a father and son sit in a room at a police station because the son has been accused of murder. The boy, Jamie, who’s 13, has been surrounded by officers, lawyers and medical workers he barely understands. Alone with his father, he weeps.

Throughout the scene, Eddie, the father, repeatedly leans........

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