and adolescents’ lower rates of health risk behavior seem to be driven by better behaved youth wanting to have more involved relationships with parents rather than anything proactive on the part of parents (Stattin & Kerr 2000). This does not mean that parental monitoring does not matter. Indeed, once the effects of adolescent disclosure are controlled, parents’ attempts to supervise adolescents are associated with adolescents’ avoidance of problem behavior (Fletcher et al. 2004, Soenens et al. 2006).
