Our children are increasingly ridden with anxiety and depression, isolated and stressed by social media and destabilized by socioeconomic disadvantages, divorce and even violence.

But it's not just children who suffer because of these trends. Parents' stress levels are enormous and growing.

"The youth mental health crisis we’re living in, where so many children are struggling with anxiety and depression, and are attempting self-harm − that also understandably weighs on parents and contributes to their own stress," U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told me recently on New York University's "Doctor Radio Reports" on Sirius XM. "Those are relatively different from what prior generations had to contend with.”

Dr. Murthy recently released a Surgeon General’s Advisory on parents' mental health, based on new research from the American Psychological........

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