Above all, a solid sense of place enables you the freedom to risk and know, no matter what the outcome you have support. For many, the sense of place is not as well established as it was when we were an agrarian society. Then, families were wedded to the land. They depended on each other for their way of life and their very survival. Today, mobility makes it more difficult to establish and maintain support systems.
Uprooted families take time to reestablish themselves and renew their sense of place.
Loss of support safety nets, even if temporary may restrain family relationships. As teachers we tend to see adolescents in our own arena. To us, they are students and adolescents. Sometimes we forget that they are a part of a much larger circle. If you were to draw a schema of these environments it would look like concentric circles with the adolescent at the center of the expanding circles.