problem page

Reader troubles section

A problem page is a newspaper or magazine section where readers write in with personal difficulties—relationship troubles, family conflicts, workplace dilemmas—and receive advice from a columnist.

The format is British; Americans typically call this an advice column.

She's been writing the problem page for twenty years.

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