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Yes, parents can be too "self-involved" and "work focused" at times. I would advocate letting teens "hang out" together in, hopefully, positive venues. I also would advocate parents taking more time to plan and take family trips and stuff that builds good memories. I cannot lay the blame totally on the parents though; that is a cop out! I had lots of times to "hang out" with my peers when I was a teen, and not all of that was "healthy" - I got into some troubling arenas. But the original post goes wells beyond the "teen" group, and the comments by thenewgreen can be true of the "older crowd" as well.