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| | adolescence - Columbia Encyclopedia article about adolescence |
 | | adolescence, time of life from onset of puberty to full adulthood. | | | I was in the flower of my adolescence, a-thrill with romance and adventure, dreaming of wild life in the wild man- world. | | | In fact, the classification of a period of life as "adolescence" is a relatively recent development in many Western societies, one that is not recognized as a distinct phase of life in many other cultures. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/adolescence
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| | Welcome to the homepage for Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D. |
| | Period of Adolescence (when puberty begins, cultural definition of adolescence, existence (or not) of emerging adulthood) | | | This book’s 400-500 entries will cover the traditional and electronic media and their impacts—for good and ill—on children and adolescents. | | | From Internet censorship to sex and violence on television and in video games, the media and their effects on children and adolescents is one of the most widely debated topics today. |
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http://www.jeffreyarnett.com/encyclopedias.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Adolescence |
| | Adolescence, stage of maturation between childhood and adulthood. | | | Since the 1960s, however, sexual activity has increased among adolescents; recent studies show that almost 50 percent of adolescents under the age of 15 and 75 percent under the age of 19 report having had sexual intercourse. | | | Despite their involvement in sexual activity, some adolescents are not interested in, or knowledgeable about, birth-control methods or the symptoms of sexually transmitted disease. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556836/Adolescence.html
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Moral Development |
| | FindArticles > Health and Fitness > Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence > Article | | | Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Moral Development | | | Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence by Dianne K. Daeg de Mott |
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2602/is_0003/ai_2602000386
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| | SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: Children and Adolescence |
| | (Green Library Information Center HQ796.E58 1991) articles cover "the range of concepts and topics involved in the scholarly and societal concern with adolescence." | | | See also guides on Women in Society and Family Studies. | | | SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: Children and Adolescence |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/research_help/res_quick_start/children.html
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