Four children a day are connected to emergency services, Youthline reports.
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In many ways, teenagers in 2026 might seem to have it easy. Instead of trawling through a neighbour’s dusty Encyclopaedia Britannica or library shelves for homework answers, they have endless information at their fingertips. Want to learn guitar? There’s a YouTube tutorial for that. Feel like Korean fried chicken or
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