Our teenage friendships can make or break
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-09-2015
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"Although autonomy-establishing behaviour is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger," Allen writes. "From a risk and prevention perspective, difficulty forming close relationships early in adolescence may now be considered a marker of risk for long-term health difficulties."