Youth and Society in Post-War France (Politics, culture & society in the New Europe)
by Chris Warne
Since the emergence of an autonomous youth identity in the 1950s, youth culture has been a constant feature of political and social debate in France. This book provides an understanding of the relationship between youth and society at the crux of such debates by analyzing the relationship from both sides.Chris Warne looks first at the social construction of youth: the attitude of the state, especially in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the debate raged as to how this new group should be "soc...
Youth Unemployment and the New International Economic Order
Sexuality
by Karin Melberg Schwier, David Hingsburger, and Dave Hingsburger
Written for anyone caring for children with developmental disabilities, this guide explains how and when to teach sexuality and safe practices and how to broach the subject when the time or opportunity arises.'
How do we keep our kids close while cultivating the confidence they'll need to grow up? How do we navigate the inevitable dips, divides, and potholes? Where do we find the strength, self-awareness, and wisdom that amount to a path forward?Despite the parenting opportunities in the tween years, we often spend time focused on academics and the social concerns of elementary school then quickly pivot to worries about safety, drugs, sex and the rebellious behavioral issues of the teen years. We think...
Radical Thought among the Young: A Survey of French Lycee Students (Youth in a Globalizing World, #11)
France experienced an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks in 2015. Following these tragic events, social science researchers felt the need to undertake new work to better understand the dynamics of this new radicalism. This book is the result of one of these attempts. A large quantitative and qualitative survey was conducted among French Lycee students in order to gather substantive information and propose an interpretation of the penetration of radical ideas, be they religious or political,...
The End of Adolescence (Oxford Medical Publications)
by Philip Graham
Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality
Anna Dee Olson's passion is to help people understand where they belong and why they are here on earth. Growing up Amish proved to hold many obstacles for Anna. If she can go against absolutely everything she had ever known to be right so that she can live her dream lifestyle than so can you. ""Growing Up Amish: Insider Secrets from One Woman's Inspirational Journey"" is packed with many tips and strategies to help you along the way.
Zhiqing: Stories from China's Special Generation presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were "sent down" to the countryside during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao's call for China's "educated youth" (zhiqing) to go to the poorest provinces and distant borders, where they worked with the local people in villages or on military farms and construction teams. From the Great Norther...
Thoughts of an Awakening Millennial (New Aware, #1)
by Robert Garey Stewart Jr
During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those around them alike - but adolescence plays an important evolutionary role in who we become as adults and there are hard scientific facts behind the spots, the smells, and the sexual experimentation, as well as the existential angst, the anger, and t...
Janet Duffy, a spunky, seventeen-year-old Irish girl, is eager to start college-but instability between her alcoholic father and self-absorbed mother jeopardize her dream, so she sets up her own apartment with her younger sister in Jamaica, Queens, and treks to City College in Manhattan, New York. The routine is deadening, but she finds purpose in the black community, working for a mural painter and volunteering for a civil rights activist. After turning eighteen, Janet marches with Dr. Mart...
¿Hasta cuándo durará esa rabieta?: Cómo calmarlos sin ponerse nervioso
by Christine Brunet and Nadia Benlakhel
Collective Thoughts of an Angry Black Teenager (Broken Down, #2) (Collective Thoughts, #2)
by Khali Raymond
Mentoring Disaffected Young People
by Tim Newburn, Mike Shiner, Tara Young, and Sylvie Groben