Therefore a troubled teen like Tracy has few resources outside the immediate family According to research from the National Study of Youth and Religion, religiously active teens are much less likely to engage in risky behaviors than
nonreligious teens.
This stuff works to a degree: as Smith and Denton show «religion actually does influence positive outcomes» and religious teens tend to do better than
nonreligious teens.
Not exact matches
In choosing friends,
teens tend to surround themselves with people who reinforce the shaping influence (religious or
nonreligious) of their parents.
All religious groups seemed equally at risk of losing
teens; no single religious group stood out as responsible for producing
nonreligious teenagers.