Aiden Sisler and Angela Ittel: Siblings in Adolescence: Emerging Individuals, Lasting Bonds

Excerpt

Adolescence is a crucial time of development and change from a child to an emerging adult. Siblings in Adolescence: Emerging Individuals, Lasting Bonds by Aiden Sisler and Angela Ittel looks at this crucial period, but with the intention of evaluating the roles of siblings in adolescence. The book evaluates how siblings shape one another’s identity, roles in society, and emotions. Adolescence is often looked at in terms of how peers or parents can influence the adolescent; however, Sisler and Ittel point out that usually sibling relationships are the longest lasting relationships in one’s life, and therefore would have important influences that need to be researched and examined. There are many different social and psychological ways of looking at adolescence and sibling influences, but Sisler and Ittel succeed in bringing many points of view into the discussion and combine them to get a more rounded analysis of very complex relationships. …