Synopsis
In this work, Robert and Beverley Cairns follow the pathways of 695 young people growing up in the 1980s and 1990 their educational successes and failures, their friendships, their families, their loves - in short, the events and feelings they experienced in the course of living. The focus is on risks - the events that produce serious and permanent impairment of psychological and emotional development, or injury and death - and lifelines - the avenues by which redirection and help may be provided. They consider the specific risks of violence, deviant social groups, school dropout, suicide, threats to self-esteem, and substance abuse. Lifelines held out to these youth include persons - parents, friends, teachers, spouses, lovers, relatives, or children - and internal values, beliefs, and maturation.
Book Description
This study follows the pathways of 695 young people growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, and the effect of lifelines--the avenues by which redirection and help may be provided--upon the "risks" of violence, deviant social groups, school dropout, teenage parenthood, suicide, substance abuse.
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