This article explores the process by which transgender youth come of age in the 21st century. Drawing from 24 in-depth interviews with trans young persons, I argue that trans youth experience a unique transition to adulthood in which cisnormative and transphobic barriers impact how trans youth ...
Barack had experienced marriage as ephemeral: His mother had married twice, divorced twice, and in each instance managed to move on with her life, career, and young children intact. My parents, meanwhile, had locked in early and for life. For them, every decision was a joint decision, ever...
First, young adults who have one or more university educated parents have a lower risk of being obese at age 28 compared to those whose parents do not have more than a high school education. Second, blacks have an increased probability of being obese at age 28 compared with whites. There ...
Carolyn Pape Cowan, Ph.D. and Philip Cowan, Ph.D., When Parents Become Partners: The Big Life Change for Couples (Results of a landmark ten year study by researchers at the University of California - Berkeley. It describes the gap between expectations and reality about parenthood in illumina...
Becoming Elsa: A Coming of Age Story: Directed by Ricky Greenwood. With Elsa Jean, India Summer, Charlotte Stokely, Cherie DeVille. Sweetheart presents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost and lust awakened, when young and inexperienced Elsa Jean arri
In many countries, sixteen or eighteen is the age at which a person becomes an adult. Young men and women at this age can get a part-time job, and begin to receive an income of their own. They no longer have to rely on their parents for money all the time. In ...
behavioral research has found that positive parent-adolescent relationships are associated with decreased intention to have sex and later age at first sexual intercourse (Van de Bongardt et al., 2014), and adolescents who perceive their parents to be caring have delayed first sex (Longmore et al...
It is for example, one of the most agonizingly painful and difficult tasks for a parent to lose a child to death, whether suddenly or slowly, in infancy or at any childhood age. It is also difficult for parents who are unable economically, psychologically or physically to care for their ...
My eldest daughter was born less than a year after my mother died. Like many other new parents I wondered,Will I be a good mom?And I had the added concern of,Will my grief impact my ability to be a good mom?This is a concern I have since heard expressed by many new or expecting...
You know the adage, “If you want something to get done, ask a busy person”? There’s no one busier than a new parent who works. Yes, mothers of young children may have their in-office schedules constrained by the hours during which they have childcare coverage — but that’s a str...