Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal disorder characterized by short stature and gonadal dysgenesis, the latter of which requires estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) to induce maintain secondary sexual characteristics. Insufficient ERT associated with compromised skeletal health, including bone fragility, in adults TS. In particular, insufficiency during adolescence critical because acquisition...

Family formation is increasingly delayed in the contemporary developed world. A few decades ago, young adulthood (age 18–24) was a period of family formation. Nowadays, the usual steps of entry into adulthood—marriage, childbearing—come much later in the life-course. The age 18–24 is no longer a time of making commitments. In 2000, the psychologist Jeffrey Arnett used the term ‘‘emerging adulth...

Although it is widely believed that sex no longer matters after middle age, the opposite is true, and sex often becomes more and not less important as a person grows older. Because sex is among the last pleasure-giving biological processes to deteriorate, it is potentially an enduring source of gratification at a time when these are becoming fewer and fewer, and a link to the joys of youth.Thes...

There is no doubt that jealousy is a source of great personal misery and an emotion with far-reaching social consequences. For example, jealousy is frequently implicated as a factor in relationship dissolution, spousal abuse and even murder (Daly & Wilson, 1988; Harris, 2003a). Despite its destructive side, jealousy also may have some positive effects for individuals and relationships. For exam...

Empowerment is fundamentally about people and groups gaining more control over their own affairs. Because the forces that prevent and enable such control are complex (both objective and subjective) and multilayered (micro-, meso-, and macrostructural), empowerment has been theorized as a multilevel construct that is concerned with both processes and outcomes and with both subjective experiences...

Previous studies of spatial contrast sensitivity in adulthood have produced conflicting results. To clarify the situation, we measured contrast sensitivity functions on a large sample of adults (n = 91), ranging in age from 19 to 87. All observers were free from significant ocular pathology and were individually refracted for the test distance. Sensitivity for stationary gratings of low spatial...

The understanding of the genetic basis of late-onset leukoencephalopathies has continued to increase in recent years. The most commonly presenting leukoencephalopathies in adulthood can be late-onset manifestations of metabolic pathways. The understanding of these diagnoses is crucial to the evaluation of adult patients presenting with leukoencephalopathies. The authors provide an overview of t...

COHABITATION Cohabitation is defined by social scientists as two adults of the opposite sex living together in an intimate, nonmarital relationship. Cohabitation has rapidly become a prominent feature on the landscape of American family life. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Kennedy and Bumpass (2007) estimated that 58% of women aged between 25 and 29 had cohabited at som...

I feel that the death of my mother in the year I turned 65 really put me up a generation so that I became superannuated, as it were, officially. I was pleased that I felt ready to move out of paid employment. But I’m also very conscious of the feeling of transition now—this sense of a very large challenge looming ahead, and a sense of preparing for that. The older I get, the more I worry about ...

BACKGROUND Research in recent decades increasingly indicates the importance of conditions in early life for health in adulthood. Only few studies have investigated socioeconomic conditions in both childhood and adulthood in relation to health testing the risk accumulation, critical period, and social mobility hypotheses within the same setting. This study investigates the associations between e...