“…Indeed, positive relationships within the family, parental support, a consistent and constructive parental discipline style, and adult supervision tend to be related negatively to adolescents' deviant behaviors and their association with deviant peers (Fergusson & Horwood, 1999;O'Keefe, Carr, & McQuaid, 1998;Patterson, 1982;Patterson, DeBaryshe, & Ramsey, 1989;Patterson, Dishion, & Bank, 1984;Warr, 1993b). Sankey and Huon (1999) found poor family relationships to be associated with higher levels of delinquent behaviors, possibly due to the fact that parents in those families provided poor role models and engaged in ineffective discipline strategies.…”