Briefly discuss the positive and negative influences of peer groups.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary.Peer influence usually increases as young children get older. Especially during the early teen years, friends often reinforce desirable behavior or skills that enhance a child's self-image. Thus, to apply Cooley's concept, peers can help each other develop a positive looking-glass self. Peers also serve as positive role models. Among teens and young adults who are lesbian or gay, heterosexual friends can be especially supportive in accepting one's homosexuality and disclosing it to family. Peers can also have a significant impact in teen dating violence by encouraging their friends to leave a relationship, to report the abuse, and to seek protection orders. Children acquire a wide array of information and knowledge by observing their peers. Not all peer or friend influence is positive, however. Among seventh- to twelfth-graders, having a best friend who engages in sexual intercourse, is truant, joins a gang, and uses tobacco and marijuana increases the probability of imitating such behavior.
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