“…Significant others such as relatives, neighbours, teachers, schoolmates may, as a result, hold firm positive or negative convictions, even prejudices, regarding this group of young people. Traditionality, and its opposite, modernity, are regarded as important sociological characteristics of families, communities and societies (McNall, 1976). A high degree of traditionality is characteristic of small, close-knit communities with an agriculturally oriented economy, strong family and communal bonds, low tolerance for deviance from norms imposing family's stability.…”