Families Impact On Adolescent's Life

Families have a huge impact on an adolescent’s life. As adolescents start to mature their peer interactions start to change, and their family relationships do as well. I have never truly realized, how much a family has an impact on one another. The text states “Although we tend to see children’s behavior as the result of their parent’s behavior, socialization is a two-way street” (Steinburg 104). I never started to notice this until I became an adolescent. My parents’ would not allow me to hang out with certain friends outside of school due to their parents’ actions. They were afraid that their actions might influence me onto the wrong path in life. Imagine becoming a parent and having to choose which parenting style you raise your

Divorce, affects the whole family not just one person specifically. I would compare divorce to death, even though it is not a life or death situation. A divorce can emotional hurt you just like losing a loved one from experiencing the feeling of the loss, separation and sadness that forms over. In the text it states “More than three-fourths of divorced men and two-thirds of divorced women remarry, the majority of youngsters whose parents separate also live in a stepfamily at some time” (Steinburg 113). Rachel had to grow up with a stepparent and had a difficult time facing that she had another dad role in her life. We and my sister were treated differently in some aspects, just because I lived with both my biological parents, and my sister only lived with one. Steinburg states “Treating siblings differently may actually be a good thing for parents to do, so long each sibling is treated well” (Steinburg 112). My sister and I were treated mostly the same, but we were treated differently. At times, I got away with more things than she did at my age because they did not follow the book as much with me as my mom did with her. My parents always joke about my sister being the experiment

We never saw complications when she was a child, but when she hit her adolescent years we could slowly start seeing the complications she was facing. She had poor judgement skills, poor academics in school, and she became sexually active at such a young age. My aunt tried everything to help her and even took her to a psychologist, which gradually helped. The text states “On average, individuals show relatively higher rates of delinquency, substance use, precocious sexual activity, psychological difficulties, and poorer school performance, but the magnitude of the difference between adopted and non adopted adolescents is small” (Steinburg 120). Seeing my cousin face many complications, I never could understand why her actions were that way. After reading this text, it allowed me to further understand why her actions were the way they