kids weren't expected to be sexually active -- or experiment with alcohol or drugs -- until they turned 17 or 18, when they were better able to resistpeer pressure, says Elkind. "Now they're getting pressure at 13 and 14, when they're too young to resist. It's not that child...
There is no reason why I, as a middle-aged white man, should not be represented by a young, black, lesbian single mother rather that a male who is my sort of age and had a similar education. In a democracy it is a question of who wins most votes. And, outside the political ...
This essay argues that because they are children, child soldiers cannot be prosecuted along with adults, and should rather benefit of support programmes in order to enable their reintegration into the civilian society. However this reintegration may takes years and cannot be successful until it is ...
Regular teenagers and young adults easily identify with rebels (as I remember doing with James Dean inRebel Without a Cause) because they themselves are trying to navigate their own rebellion against parental authority. Society supports this self-development through peer friendships, music, clothing st...
why people instinctively dislike being manipulated; it’s why imprisonment is a punishment, and we feel an innate urge to rebel against slavery. This need explains why game series that offer players a wealth of free choices – such as The Elder Scrolls or Grand Theft Auto – are so popular...
Salinger, was first published, and it still makes parents assail this book, while young adults and teenagers read this book with ease and laughter. Parents assail this book due to its explicit descriptions and diction, but do not assail the fact that their children are exposed to sex and ...
Introduction Smoking is one of the most popular habits among people today. All around the world we see people smoking. Even in Bangladesh the number of smokers is quite high. Especially around the university campus young adults are seen smoking frequently. It can be said that among every friend...
and in many cases they rebelled. This was no surprise to the adults. By this point in history, the idea that children’s own preferences had any value had been pretty well forgotten. Brute force, long used to keep children on task in fields and factories, was transported into the classro...
learned to appreciate the Irish spots in the Bay Area that were just as authentically Irish even if they weren’t wall to wall trad and rebel songs like I thought. And when I was there last April, Dublin felt like the most obvious and natural place in the world to be. And I felt li...
& author of the go-to book on nutrition for fertility, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle of Caol Isla scotch, curling up with a page-turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and parenting her three children as they grow into young adults....