[Children are born twice: at birth and in adolescence. The adolescent, his/her parents, and the pediatrician].
We know the young's problem often depended to family and to society. In these years we have seen important changes of the family, that is no more a "patriarchal family" but is a "nuclear family". In general we can say that there is a change of the social levels of the family; in particular the Mass-media (especially television-set) are the most important factors responsible of these changes in fact they block the dialogue between family's members. In Italy we can found about 4.500.000 of adolescents (with age between 14 and 20 years). If we observe recent epidemiological data, we can suppose that: about 500.000 of young men have or will have problems that block them to live serenely their adolescence about 70.000 of young men have had a so important problem than they have a psychiatric personality in the future about 4.000 of young men will die for suicide, drugs or for road's incidences. For adolescents is necessary a doctor with multiple competence. We think that this doctor can be pediatrician because he is the doctor that visit children from neonatal age and, for this reason, ha can identify the "family with problems". In conclusion we can say that the pediatrician could say to adolescent's patents that "it is born a new child" with personal idea and with different attitudes, for these reason they must change the rules that they used before puberty because now the same rules are no more valid!
Franchini
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Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Firenze, Via Luca Giordano, 13, 50132 Firenze, Italia.
Sgaramella
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P
Cavallini
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E
Giannotti
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G
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010372:Pediatrics; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent