social life for adolesents

The social life of adolescents is extremely significant in affecting student’s engagement in school. Friends and peers may be the most significant factor in determining an adolescent’s behavior. According to Bedford Brown, adolescence is a time with an increase in friends, more independence, less parental supervision, more opposite sex relationships develop, and adolescents develop an awareness of the social structure of peer groups. Because of all of these changes throughout adolescence, the adolescent...