Objectives. The transition to adulthood can be challenging, especially for children of incarcerated parents. Drawing on reentry and life-course scholarship, we argue that parental incarceration may adversely affect multiple life outcomes for children as they progress from adolescence into adulthood and that such effects may persist from early young adulthood into late young adulthood. Methods. ...

This essay examines a range of meanings and markers of adulthood, from biological to social, psychological, and legal. It describes a shift frommore universal and traditional definitions of adulthood, whichwere also heavily gendered, to an increasingly diverse and personalized set of definitions. This shift reflects the prolonged, complex, and highly unequal spectrum of pathways that young peop...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of binge drinking in adolescence and its persistence into adulthood in an Australian cohort. DESIGN 15-year prospective cohort study. SETTING Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 1943 adolescents were recruited from secondary schools at age 14-15 years. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES Levels of past-week 'binge' drinking (5+ standard drinks on a day, each 10 g...

To better understand the processes through which eating habits during childhood are carried over into adulthood, I asked question: under what circumstances and patterns do feeding behaviors of parents become replicated emerge as habitual in their children young adulthood? aim to investigate how parenting style parent surrounding food diet influence children’s dietary long-term. Previous researc...

PURPOSE This paper examines individual, family, and neighborhood level predictors of resilience in adolescence and young adulthood and describes changes in resilience over time from adolescence to young adulthood in abused and neglected children grown up. METHOD We use documented cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect (n=676) from a Midwestern county area during the years 19...

This chapter introduces the innovative field-based studies on disadvantaged men that are featured in this volume. Together, these studies of disadvantaged men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and both urban and nonurban settings complement and extend recent discussions of emerging adulthood, which typically conceptualizes the transition to adulthood as a normative and linear process. ...

This study investigated emerging adulthood and transition to adulthood in Greece, a highly underresearched issue in this country. Participants were 784 university students aged 17.5-27.5 years. Criteria for the transition to adulthood, developmental features of emerging adulthood, perceived adult status, views of the future (optimism), and sociodemographic variables were assessed. The results s...

This article asserts that the theory of emerging adulthood is a useful way of conceptualizing the lives of people from their late teens to their midto late 20s in industrialized societies. The place of emerging adulthood within the adult life course is discussed. The weaknesses of previous terms for this age period are examined, and emerging adulthood is argued to be preferable as a new term fo...

Introduction: Many of the diseases of adulthood are originated from the intrauterine conditions during fetal life. Because of the importance of thyroid hormones in growth and development of the fetus, the effects of maternal hypothyroidism on carbohydrate metabolism in adulthood was investigated. Methods: Pregnant rats were divided into the fetal hypothyroidism (FH) and the control (C) group...

The life course perspective, the risky families model, and stress-and-coping models provide the rationale for assessing the role of smoking as a mediator in the association between childhood adversity and anxious and depressive symptomatology (ADS) in adulthood. However, no previous study has assessed the independent mediating role of smoking in the association between childhood adversity and A...