The romance of risk: Why teenagers do the things they do by L. E. Ponton

Publisher: New York, Basic Books.
Date: 1997

Annotation by Charles G. Morris, U of Michigan: According to Ponton, for the great majority of adolescents risk-=taking is positive and healthy, but for a significant minority it is unhealthy and sometimes disastrous. Ponton explores the sources of adolescent risk-taking in the family and steps that parents can take to direct risk-taking into more healthy channels.

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