Young people, health, and family life
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Young people, health, and family life
Open University Press, 1994
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* What is it like to be a teenager today?
* How do parents and teenagers
experience their roles and
responsiblities?
* And how does the problem of health - a major cultural goal of the twentieth century - figure in the perspective and priorties of young people and their parents
This book seeks to answer these questions in a unique study of over 800 16-year-olds. Taking family life as the focus, the book explores a critical moment in teenagers and parents lives with respect to the transition to adulthood, a point a which young people and parents take important decisions about the future, especially concerning education, training and the labour market.
Table of Contents
Themes and methods
meanings of adolescence
fathers and mothers
definitions of health
young people and illness
taking risks
families, rules and young people
household negotiations and food
household negotiations - sex, smoking, alcohol and drugs
relations between parents and young people
by "Nielsen BookData"