ABSTRACT
The period of adolescence poses unique challenges for adolescents and their parents as both work through the process of redefining roles and expectations in the family environment. These adaptations in the family have been iden tified as a source of increased conflict among adolescents and their parents; however, at the same time, warmth and closeness are not necessarily dimin ished in family relations, with these factors playing an important role in the individual’s navigation of the adolescent decade (Collins, 1990; Hill, 1980, 1987; Paikoff & Brooks-Gunn, 1991). In other words, conflict and change occur, hopefully, in the context of love.
