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Nina Cranmer
Nina Cranmer is a second-year student at Wesleyan University. She is majoring in mathematics.
Abstract: What is the best way to parent an adolescent? Do children do better with rules and boundaries or with more lenient styles of parenting? More specifically, which parenting style leads to a better parent-child relationship later in life? This project examines the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health’s data on adolescent individuals and the closeness of their relationships with their parents over two decades later, as fully-grown adults. The findings suggest that while adolescent boys do slightly better with more rules and boundaries than they do without, girls are largely unaffected. Future study of the topic might examine the mother-child and father-child relationships separately, examining the gender of the parents rather than the children as it relates to parenting style and long-term close familial relationships.