If you violate it by jumping off a tall building, you will go splat. Along the same lines, if you violate a universal law on raising teens once too often, you might go splat as a family. They need to feel they are a part of something bigger than themselves. The parents' job is to make sure they get it in a healthy place, even if they don't like it all the time. Law of Hope.
Recent statistics show that the only age group in which the suicide rate is rising is adolescents.
Law of Power. Once you enter into a power struggle with a teen, you have already lost it. Trying to control a teen is like trying to put pants on a gorilla. It's just going to frustrate you and really irritate the gorilla. Law of Management.