Their companionship serves as a source of encouragement or prodding for all that...

Their companionship serves as a source of encouragement or prodding for all that, which is restrained or restricted by the parents; it is therefore, attractive to the child. The examples are an unbridled liberty of movement and loafing about, truancy, relaxation in the discipline, unruly "group behaviour" in the streets and other public places, and. worse still, immoral inclination. What is even more attractive to that child who is well under disciplinary control at home and apparently worthy of…