'A cry for help': Teens faced extreme stress during the pandemic, including emotional abuse, CDC finds

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'A cry for help': Teens faced extreme stress during the pandemic, including emotional abuse, CDC finds
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More than half of high school students said they were victims of verbal outbursts during the pandemic lockdown in 2020, according to a new CDC survey.

A majority of teenagers say they endured insults, put-downs and other forms of emotional abuse from a parent or other adult at home duringThe findings offer a stark appraisal of how high school students have fared during the pandemic.

The survey findings, which were published as a series of reports Thursday, are based on the responses of a group of 7,705 nationally representative high school students. Participants were asked to complete the It remains unclear how significant a role lockdown played in such reports."There is no way to know specifically whether our findings reflect something new due to the pandemic or existing levels of abuse from prior to the pandemic," Ethier said.

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