Table 4.

Frequency distribution of the items of bonding to family.

N = 1000	N	%
Bonding to family (age below 15 years)
Like to be the kind of person parents are/were	748	74.8
Parents made you feel trusted	834	83.4
Parents understand your problems & needs	775	77.5
Parents are depended upon for advice and guidance	835	83.5
Parents encouraged me for going to school	917	91.7
Parents spent time talking with you about school	805	80.5
Parents spent time talking with the participants about activities of the day and spent time for playing and travels	692	69.2
Parents knew the friends of their sons/daughters (participants)	906	90.6