A friend sent me this:
"TODAY Tastemaker and child development expert Deborah Gilboa told TODAY Parents that the real crime in the Canadian teenager's 911 call to report her parents last week "seems to be that we have robbed teenagers of any sense of true difficulty or emergency."
I only know the boy, and the old adage/myth that girls mature faster than boys... but, and not to endorse TODAY magazine, this made sense.
(thanks, Leslie)