Human Growth and Development / Unit 10 HGD 1384 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Adolescent Friendship
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The idea
Adolescent friendship is an intimate, emotionally close relationship between two people; intimacy means making oneself vulnerable to the other.
In practice
Two fifteen-year-olds texting late into the night about worries they share with no one else.
Where people slip
Friendship is intense and exclusive in early and middle adolescence; later some of that intensity moves to romance.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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