into many smaller less powerful groups. But because of such closeness in family, standards become even greater. The reason peer groups work, are due to many factors. During adolescence, parents and adolescents become more physically and psychologically distant from each other. This normal distancing is seen in decreases in emotional closeness and warmth, increases in parent-adolescent conflict and disagreement, and an increase in time adolescents spend with peers. Increases in family strains: divorce, economic struggles, and other problems have prompted teenagers to depend more on peers for emotional support. By the high school years, most teenagers report feeling closer to friends than parents. Peer groups emerged and family structure is swept under the carpet. Not until teens begin to feel more stable they stay in large peer groups.During adolescence, peers play a large part in a young person's life and typically replace family as the center of a teen's social and leisure activities. But teenagers have various peer relationships, and they interact with many peer groups. Often "peer cultures" have very different values and norms. Groups are almost always a good thing. Emerging power in groups becomes very strong while teenagers stick closer together. Teens will always stick together in a time of distress, and when group’s stick tighter they become much stronger....
