Question 1: B. their children
Question 2: A. easily adopt dangerous habits
Question 3: C. This in turn has a direct effect on their academics
Question 4: A. working on their academics
Question 5: D. bad about themselves and their family
Question 6: B. Come from poor economic backgrounds

Peer-pressure is the influence that friends, people, and individuals in a group are capable of exerting on their peers. Sometimes adults underestimate the effects of peer pressure on their children because they were teenagers long ago in a different time. Here are three ways in which peer-pressure can negatively affect children.

First, due to peer pressure, children can easily adopt dangerous habits. For example, many may develop bad habits such as alcohol consumption, smoking, drug abuse.

Second, children's academic performance is also affected by their peers. For teenagers, it is important for them to be accepted by their peer group. This means that their peer group's approval gets placed above that of their parents and teachers. This, in turn, has a direct effect on their academics. Sometimes their academics are affected because despite being capable of performing well, they choose not to because in the eyes of their peers, it makes them look 'uncool'. Sometimes their academics are affected because in an effort to fit in with their peer group, they place more emphasis on working on their academics.

Finally, negative peers also make children feel ashamed or bad about themselves and their family. At the average school, students come from various economic backgrounds. If the students come from poor economic backgrounds, they end up feeling bad or ashamed of themselves and their family because, in the eyes of their peers, they are somehow 'lesser' or 'weird' individuals.