Eva, age 15, insists that she is going to spend her summer vacation with her best friend at the lake house owned by the friend's family. eva does not want to go on the vacation that her family has planned and says that they can't make her. her parents should understand that eva is

The answer is Eva is challenging her parent’s authority and asserting her autonomy. Autonomy generally connotes self-direction and independence. Most adolescents had a conflict with parents during the peak of pubertal growth. Research shows that adolescents display avoidant if parents show aggression.