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Welcome to my column on parenting teenagers. I will be sharing with you a selection of problems that parents and carers have offered me while I was writing my book ‘Teenagers: their care and maintenance in captivity’ which is available direct from: www.lulu.com or from major online retailers. I welcome examples of readers’ problems, though cannot enter into correspondence on these.

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Claire writes from Vila Real de Santo António:Dear Dr Mike, I am a single parent of two lively teenage boys. I am divorced from their father and try to focus, as much as I can, on the needs of my sons. I am becoming increasingly aware that they don’t seem to need me so much as they used to and while I am pleased that they are making their own way in life, nonetheless this sometimes leaves me feeling a bit redundant. I have purposefully avoided relationships with other men since I divorced. Is this still a good idea?

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