Childhood Enemies

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plays a significant role in personality development, but these genetic influences are not 100% determinant of adult personality traits (Doherty, 1997). A combination of rapid physical changes and early exposure to sexual and violent images is shrinking the time between childhood and adolescence.
It is widely accepted that a complex and subtle interplay between the growing adolescentfs family, community, and social environments and the dispositional characteristics an adolescent brings to these environments, can be consequential to the emerging adult personality (Doherty, 1997). However, it should be noted that developing technologies, such as the Internet and video games are growing in their influence on emerging adult personalities too.
g Over a very short period of time, there has been a dramatic truncation of childhood,h says Mary Pipher, gThroughout history, this was always a time when children were free of the burdens and responsibilities of sexuality. Parents ...

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a frantic exercise in gbeat the clock,h with family members having fifteen minutes to eat before rushing off to a soccer game, and trying to bond in the half hour before bed so they donft waste time. To get away from the hustle of family life Hochschild suggests that parents welcome the refuge in the workplace, where they can socialize and relax. She writes, gIn this new model of family-and-work life, a tired parent flees a world of unresolved quarrels and unwashed laundry for the reliable orderliness, harmony, and managed cheer of work.h
But even the most attentive parents cannot slow his or her childfs physical maturity. Parents, educators and physicians long have observed that ...

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