Peer pressure has a much greater effect on teens behavior than any other issue. Peers are the individuals with whom a child or teenager identifies, who are usually but not always of the similar generation.

During teenage, teens practice risk attractive attitudes or behavior as they are trying to discover their own personality and become more independent.

In this period teenage perform risk taking behaviors as they are trying to getting their individual identity and become more independent. This makes them very defenseless to experimenting or becoming addicted to using drugs and drinking, especially if there is peer pressure to do so.

Occasionally peers influence each other in negative behavior. In such situations, peer pressure can impair high-quality decision and fuel risk-taking activities or behaviors, drawing a teen away from the family and positive influences and luring into dangerous behavior.

The stage of peer pressure increases with age, and resistance to peer influence often declines as the child gains freedom from the parents or family, yet has not fully formed an autonomous identity.

Peer influence can be originate in groups as young as age two, when children will do things simply because other kids are doing it or tell them to.

Teach the parents and teenagers how to keep away from situations where drug use, drinking, or smokings are present and to reduce negative influences by choosing friends who also choose not to use these substances.

Peer pressure on teenagers is dividing in two types -one is positive peer pressure and another is negative peer pressure. Appropriate and suitable way, to do the right thing when you may not otherwise, or to do more good than damage it is safe to say this is positive peer pressure.

If peer influence is telling you to do something without questioning why, to do something you know is wrong, or to do something you undergo uncomfortable and painful doing it is safe to say this is negative peer pressure.