Age groups and generations

According to the Centers for Disease Control, obesity now affects up to 37% of all children and adolescents in the United States, triple the rate from just one generation ago.

Die Zeit vergeht, die Liebe bleibt.

Recent advances in our understanding of the human brain suggest that adolescence is a unique period of development during which both environmental and genetic influences can leave a lasting impression.

An extended study of the writings of Lil' Kim, the multi-platinum selling Hip Hop artist.

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.

Winner of the 2022 Opie PrizeJeanne Pitre Soileau vividly presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana.

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Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of the District of Columbia.

Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth.

This book is a "e;must read"e; for anyone who is presently caring for their aging parents, anyone who will eventually care for their aging parents or anyone planning on growing older.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war.

What does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast?

Rudolph, Frosty, and Captain Kangaroo is a memoir by Judy Gail Krasnow about her father, Hecky Krasnow, the producer of such classic childrens records and holiday tunes as Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Im Gettin Nuttin for Christmas, Peter Cottontail, Suzy Snowflake, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, The Captain Kangaroo March, Smokey the Bear, Davy Crockett, Little Red Monkey, and The Little Engine That Could.

The transition to adulthood is a longer and more complex process than it was just a few decades ago, and a growing number of youth and young adults experience significant challenges in the establishment of an autonomous and independent lifestyle when compared to previous generations.

People play mobile games everywhere and at any time.

The Verbal Behavior (VB) approach is a form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), that is based on B.

This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world.

This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness.

This transformative book looks at one of the most undervalued aspects of childhood, joy.

This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse-an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.

This book employs Markov models and propensity score matching methods to analyze the demand for elderly care labor, utilizing data from the China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and World Population Prospects 2022 (United Nations, 2022).

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency.

A nuanced, intimate picture of how young people live with and on social media.

This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the growing field of literary age studies and points to new directions in scholarly research.

This dictionary, encyclopaedic in nature is unique among the existing literature.

Das Buch unternimmt eine aktuelle Standortbestimmung von Jugend, indem zahlreiche für die Lebenslage Jugend relevante gesellschaftliche Anforderungen thematisiert und deren Bedeutung für die Lebensphase Jugend analysiert werden.

In the Second Edition, Gelfand devotes greater attention to the impact of immigration on the United States and provides a useful model for providers working with older persons from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

The study of adolescence in the field of psychology has grown tremendously over the last two decades, necessitating a comprehensive and up-to-date revision of this seminal work.

The New York Times–bestselling author of At Seventy returns with a memoir about advancing age, including her experience with a series of strokes.

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As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy.

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

Wie leben ältere Menschen in und mit Umwelten, die sich immer rascher und komplexer entwickeln?

Navigating post-secondary educational opportunities for individuals with disabilities is a daunting task.

In a world fraught with diet-culture and weight stigma, many parents worry about their child's relationship with their body and food.

Accelerated population ageing, long a significant issue for developed countries, is now becoming important in the developing world too.

In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

Richard Lowenstein's 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023The Myth of Harm engages and analyses controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children.

This book explores that which is at the very heart of coaching: the coach-coachee relationship.

Gerontology is a discipline with a very strong interdisciplinary orientation - ageing can probably only be understood through a synergy-rich linking of different fields of study.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Geschichten sind alle unterschiedlich und doch haben sie einen gemeinsamen Kern: eine Liebe für die Gegensätzlichkeit der Existenz.

Macciomei and Ruben provide the first compendium entirely devoted to the exigency and pathology of serious teen aggression, including homicidal and combative problems.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.