In the situations of prevailing states of loneliness, the adolescents chose to communicate with their parents, siblings as well as grandparents and other close relatives. The strongest ties with parents were observed in the fifth-formers' relationships, but with age, those contacts tended to lose the formerly strong type of relationship, which gradually became replaced by stronger contacts with peers. It is notable that there was also a group of school learners identified by the study who had no one to talk to or share their concerns with.