Exploring the links between family strengths and adolescent outcomes

This research brief reports on the results of new Child Trends analyses of data for adolescents ages 12-17 from the 2005 Every Child Every Promise Study conducted by America's Promise Alliance. The study looks at family strengths, which includes emotional/subjective strengths (such as close and caring parents); behavioral/concrete strengths (for example, parental monitoring and parent involvement); and passive parenting strengths (for instance, positive parental role modeling). The study examines the relationship between family strengths and outcomes for adolescents in both lower-income families and higher-income families.