Abstract: Parent-Child Connectedness: Implications for Research, Interventions and Positive Impacts onAdolescent Health helps to describe the many ways that parents matter in improving their teen children’sodds for success. It provides a comprehensive review of the research literature, plus offers some practicalinsights about how and why "promising approaches work." Most importantly, it provides a contemporaryframework for talking about parents and children. This document is not just about two-parent householdsin homogenous communities. Consistent with current demographics in the United States, the families andprograms described cut across ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and gender distinctions. Moreover, thisdocument is written to help program operators, policymakers, funders and researchers reflect upon whatworks and begin to think creatively about what else needs to be done to ensure that all parents have whatthey want and what they need to form powerful, positive and productive connections with their children.