Young people learn from interactions with their parents how to initiate and maintain satisfying, warm friendships. Engels et al. (2001) conducted a longitudinal study of 412 adolescents to explore whether social skills are the pathways through which parental attachment is associated with adolescent emotional adjustment. They found that higher quality parental relationships are associated with adolescent social skills, which, in turn, influenced the competence of older adolescents in friendships and romantic relationships (Engels et al., 2001). Similarly, in a longitudinal study of 67 families, a positive affective parental relationship with the child during preschool (age 4 -5) predicted higher levels of intimacy skills at age 12 (Estrada, Arsenio, Hess, & Holloway, 1987).