Individuals that surround someone, in their early stages of development, can have a positive or negative effect on how they go through life. Oprah Winfrey is a perfect example of this, being that she has a wide range of friends, a successful career, and a net worth of 2.9 billion to top it off. Nobody would have guessed she came from a household where she was repeatedly abused by several family members. In Oprah’s life her parents played an instrumental part in her future both in the positive and negative outcomes. We see future success in so many areas in the world coming from the rich, the poor, two parents, one parent, no parents and countless other situations. However, one can not define future success just by the amount of money they…show more content… To start this feat, we had to consider why some people flourish in these areas and others fall short, which led us to these: The relationship with their parents has an effect on their behavior towards education, parental social support has an impact on social support with their peers, and social support from parents affects their overall satisfaction with…show more content… Social support with peers occurs when peers provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other (Mead, Hilton, Curtis). When peers share experiences one gains information and perspectives through witnessing it first hand and seeing how a peer successfully deals and reacts to that situation (Salzer, M., & Shear, S. L., 2002). This in turn, provides one with a sense of self evidence or obviousness, recall, or recognition (Mead, Hilton, Curtis). Without having strong peer relationships, one would be deprived the experiences and opportunity to fully develop as an individual. Mark Salzer stated that experiences when shared (with peers) contributes to solving problems and improving quality of life. Strong peer relationships are often originated from positive social support that children would acquire from their parents. Someone who struggles trying to form strong emotional relationships, would most likely lack a strong sense of social support from their parents. In particular, security of attachment in the family has been identified as having important implications for later close relationships (_________). Seeing all the implication of not having strong social support from peers led us to do more research and take a closer look to the results in the area of satisfaction with life and see if social
