Societies around the world are changing rapidly, but are adolescents being prepared to be adults in the emerging global world? An international study group addresses this question. Articles examine how well adolescents are being prepared for productive employment, healthy relationships, civic participation, and positive physical and mental health.
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Societies around the world are changing rapidly, but are adolescents being prepared to be adults in the emerging global, high-tech world? This volume is the report of an international study group addressing this question. Articles examine how well adolescents are being prepared for productive employment, healthy interpersonal relationships, civic participation, and positive physical and mental health in the future. Authors point to a range of possible positive and negative scenarios and make recommendations for social policy. The many conclusions include: The ladder to reaching 'successful' adulthood is 152ening in most regions of the world.Separate 'youth cultures' are appearing in nearly all societies.Adolescence will increasingly be spent indoors.New technologies and increasing wealth are not likely to alter rates of adolescent problem behavior.Despite greater demands, most youth are rising to the challenge and developing higher levels of skill and maturity than were common in prior generations.
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Societies around the world are changing rapidly, but are adolescents being prepared to be adults in the emerging global, high-tech world? This volume is the report of an international study group addressing this question. Articles examine how well adolescents are being prepared for productive employment, healthy interpersonal relationships, civic participation, and positive physical and mental health in the future. Authors point to a range of possible positive and negative scenarios and make recommendations for social policy. The many conclusions include:
- The ladder to reaching 'successful' adulthood is lengthening in most regions of the world.
- Separate 'youth cultures' are appearing in nearly all societies.
- Adolescence will increasingly be spent indoors.
- New technologies and increasing wealth are not likely to alter rates of adolescent problem behavior.
- Despite greater demands, most youth are rising to the challenge and developing higher levels of skill and maturity than were common in prior generations.
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New York, Cambridge University Press, United States, Latin America, World Health Organization, Santa Maria, Oxford University Press, Journal of Research, University of Chicago Press, Southeast Asia, United Nations Development Programme, Annual Review of Sociology, Middle East, South Asia, Takoma Park, International Youth Foundation, Random House, San Francisco, South Africa, United Nations Population Fund, National Academy Press, Stanford University Press, United Nations Children's Fund, American Psychologist, Eastern Europe New!
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- Child Development by Brown on 6 pages
- United Nations (New True Books) by Carol Greene on page 10
- Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 31 by Karen S. Cook on page 63
- Children of the Great Depression, 25th Anniversary Edition by Glen H. Elder on page 27
- Child Development by Fergus P. Hughes on page 94
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- The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood by Jeylan T. Mortimer in Front Matter
- The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood by Jeylan T. Mortimer in Front Matter
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