adolescent

For 30 years I’ve been studying 18-to-29-year-olds, an age group I call “emerging adults” to describe their in-between status as no longer adolescents, but not fully adult.

The film mostly covers this mismatch with reference to adolescent mental health, but it’s also worth considering how it can distort our sense of right and wrong.

He wanted to see if stress affects the brains of adolescents and adults differently.

Her work focuses on such effects in children and adolescents.

Most adolescent humans will have DNA marks that are in one pattern, while humans nearing 65 or 70 show a different pattern of DNA marks.

But for adolescent inmates, says U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara, “Rikers Island is broken.”

What is new, however, is the role that technology is playing in adolescent sexuality.

An investment in creating a non-violent world for adolescent girls will have many positive impacts.

Adolescent girls are one of the most vulnerable populations in the world.

A rite of passage solely reserved for adolescent girls, the painful custom is believed to be as old as the local creation myth.

And could it not be extended from its present limited range until it reached practically the whole adolescent community?

It has come to the notice of the Committee that many parents are conniving at the practice of having liquor at adolescent parties.

I know of nothing better for the adolescent child than to teach him how properly to manicure his own nails.

Despite all of his reading, Dorothy's marriage made her, in his brown adolescent eyes, wholly intangible.

Such was my mad, adolescent prayer, while the stars seemed to answer in sympathetic silence.