Large-Scale Comparison of Perspectives on Parenting Between Teenage Runaways and Nonrunaways

• NCJ Number: 104803
• Journal: Adolescence Volume: 21 Issue: 84 Dated: (Winter 1986) Pages: 921-930
• Author(s): R C Loeb; T A Burke; C A Boglarsky
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 10 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
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Annotation

Teenage runaways were compared to teenage nonrunaways concerning their views on parenting behaviors.

Abstract

In ratings of reasons for running away, the runaways emphasized typical teenage issues such as differences in values from parents and rebellion. On the other hand, nonrunaways gave highest ratings to more dramatic issues such as parental abuse and drug use. Runaways were less likely to want to have children than nonrunaways and, if they did have children, runaways anticipated being very different with their children than their parents had been with them (e.g., more involved and open). Nonrunaways generally expected to be about the same as their parents had been. Suggestions for treatment, based on the findings, are offered. (Publisher abstract)