ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on social support in teens' lives as one, broad way of understanding relationship processes. It provides practice and policy considerations for ensuring that adolescents have consistent, diverse, supportive networks of both peers and adults to keep them afloat during stormy times. Parent involvement in the schools, as in most studies of this age group, was much less in the present study than when the children were younger. Many experiences and developmental tasks that characterize adolescence now extend into early adulthood, and some tasks characterizing adulthood are now begun during adolescence. Many experiences and developmental tasks that characterize adolescence now extend into early adulthood, and some tasks characterizing adulthood are now begun during adolescence.
