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Raising Teens

Prepared by A. Rae Simpson, Ph.D., Raising Teens : A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action is the culmination of a groundbreaking initiative to pull together current research on the parenting of adolescents and to distill from it key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents. 

In creating Raising Teens, particular emphasis was placed on identifying those conclusions about the parenting of adolescents about which there is widespread agreement among researchers and practitioners. The report concluded that, contrary to popular perception, there is significant agreement within research findings about important basic principles for raising teenagers in the United States today. 

These central ideas, which cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives, are encapsulated in clear, short charts and summaries within the report. 

You will find, for example, a set of Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents, with a list of strategies for each.  Also featured is a list of Ten Tasks of Adolescence, which delineates the main aspects of adolescent development that parents and other adults need to be aware of and support.   

VIEW and DOWNLOAD REPORT IN ENGLISH

Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action (101 page PDF)

If you are unable to download the report, please contact the MIT Center for Work, Family and Personal Life at worklife@mit.edu, 617-253-1592.

 

VIEW and DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISH

A translation of the Raising Teens report in Spanish, Ser padres de adolescentes, is available from the Pan American Health Organization at: http://www.paho.org/Spanish/AD/FCH/CA/serpadresadol.pdf

 

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
To reach the report's author, Rae Simpson, contact her at:

A. Rae Simpson, Ph.D.
Program Director, Parenting Education and Research
Center for Work, Family and Personal Life
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room 16-151
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-1592 
Fax: 617-253-2609 
E-mail: rsimpson@mit.edu