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  "id": 14929255,
  "title": "Mental health practitioners call for lower or no parental consent age as more youths seek help",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/mental-health-practitioners-call-for-lower-or-no-parental-consent-age-14929255",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-16T09:48:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Channel News Asia",
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    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mental-health-practitioners-call-lower-parental-consent-age-more-youths-seek-help-6465381"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Some practitioners want the threshold lowered to as young as 13 or 14 - even none at all - as the government works on guidelines on parental consent for mental health services.",
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        "outlet": "CNA - Singapore",
        "title": "Mental health practitioners call for lower or no parental consent age as more youths seek help",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/mental-health-practitioners-call-for-lower-or-no-parental-consent-age",
        "published": "2026-10-16T09:48:04.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}