Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran Ph.D. show that "divorce is associated with an increase in depression: people experience loss of partner, hopes and dreams, and lifestyle". ... Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran says that the more secure they are in their relationship with their parents, the higher the changes they will adapt well to various time sharing schedules and experience security and fulfillment in their intimate relationships in adulthood. ... The sleeper effect most often affects them in late adolescence or early adulthood. ... Most often girls who experience the sleeper effect seem better adju...

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Barnes and Hale explored their own experiences in the American West through writing their personal memoirs. ... Family and transience played major roles in both author's lives while religion and rebellion were important forces in Barnes" adolescence and Hale discussed her adulthood more thoroughly in her work. ... The transient aspect of both Hale and Barnes" childhoods shaped their adolescence and adulthoods. ... Hale's description of such an unbearable childhood contradicts Kim Barnes" experience as a child. Contrary to Hale's experience with family, Kim Barnes had a very...

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Children who do not experience mastery of particular skills feel inferior and shun new activities (Sroufe, Cooper, & DeHart, 1992). ... In this stage "adolescents build on all earlier experiences to develop a sense of self-identity, particularly in relation to their society. ... This stage is intimacy versus isolation, which occurs in young adulthood. This stage is intimacy versus isolation, which occurs in young adulthood. ... The next stage is generativity versus stagnation, which occurs during adulthood. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These values were instilled by her mother and grandfather's teachings and life experiences. ... It was after these experiences that changed Janice's racial identity. ... Janice credits these experiences and the mentoring of her professors, for her ability to succeed in a multicultural world. ... It was very important for Janice to experience racism first hand, because it created an identity about how she thinks of herself. ... There are many unanswered questions about Janice's childhood which makes it difficult to determine whether she successfully completed each stage, but I w...

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Wallerstein in 1971, sociologists and family-health specialists have posited that the wrenching act of divorce and its aftermath leave scars that can linger "in the afflicted children, throughout adolescence and into adulthood (Wallerstein and Kelly 257). ... While, I once believed that separation would be beneficial to my whole family, through actual experience and thorough examination, I have selfishly realized that I would rather have both of my parents accessible to me when I need them. ... Based on personal experience, I believed that I was an exception to the rule and that divorce w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In both instances relationships were stronger and the reason being is they are able to feel empathy for one another and due to the fact that normally siblings are not caretakers they do not experience as much stress as primary caretakers. ... The agency has progressed into a lifetime service that gives families of those with a variety of disabilities from birth all the way to late adulthood. ...

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In a negative relationship the adolescent mother feels more equal to her mom where respect and adulthood are concerned, yet still so dependent on her not only for herself but also for her child (Black, 1996). ... In my own personal experience with my mother and being an adolescent parent myself, I found this helped me and my mothers relationship as a parent. ...

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