>If we want a healthier society, we need to take a step back and give teenagers a chance to actually live life.

We need something like Rumspringa[1], a period in life when I young person is given a bit of slack, and is expected to eventually voluntarily take upon themselves the duties and responsibilities of an adult, or leave the community.

I can't find it now[2], but I remember either Joseph Campbell, or some other such person in a TV interview describing how in earlier societies, the children once of sufficient age would be set outside of society, and allowed to sleep in the ashes around the camp fires, until they resolved to join society as an adult, with all the privileges and responsibilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

[2] google really does suck these days, doesn't it?