Furthermore, an intervention program focused on parenting appears to ultimately encourage better quality parent-child relationships. The program, geared to educate adolescents on the responsibilities and consequences of parenthood, was part of Save the Children's Positing Parenting Project in a rural area of Scotland (Cutting & Tammi, 1999). Program exercises included generating ideas of skills and qualities participants considered important in a parent, employing a parent's perspective to evaluate problems, conflicts, and responsibilities, and discussing the lifestyle changes that would occur if participants had children. In a retrospective evaluation, 27 respondents, 18 males and 9 females between the ages of 13 and 14, reported an increased understanding of their parents' decisions, motivations, and sacrifices. Respondents also reported being more empathetic towards their parents and more understanding of the demands parents placed on them. However, no females and only a quarter of the males perceived a positive change in their parent-child relationship.