Title: Peer groups - children, therapy, adults, drug, people, skills, effect, women
Headings: Peer groups
Peer groups
Definition
Membership in peer groups
Aggression in peer groups
Influence of peer groups
Interventions
Risks
Resources
BOOKS
PERIODICALS
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Content: For example, if the parents  work extra jobs and are largely unavailable, their children may turn to  their peer group for emotional support. This also occurs when the conflict  between parents and children during adolescence, or at any time during a  child's development, becomes so great that the child feels pushed  away and seeks closeness elsewhere. Most children and adolescents in this  situation are not discriminating about the kind of group they join. They  will often turn to a group simply because that group accepts them, even if  the group is involved in illegal or negative activities. Gang involvement,  for example, is a common form of organized—often  antisocial—peer interaction. Gangs may be based on ethnicity, sex,  and/or common activity. Most youths who join gangs come from families  where drug and alcohol use, financial burdens, and broken relationships  are common. The need for affiliation or closeness is often greater than  the need to "do the right thing" for some adolescents who  feel isolated and abandoned by members of their own family. Being part of  a gang provides such individuals with acceptance and security not  available at home or in other peer groups. Membership in peer groups
Despite significant gains in diversity training, current studies continue  to show that children are less likely to accept those who are different  from themselves.