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There's childhood, adulthood, and the messy bit in between. Here's how we've defined adolescence throughout history - and why it's time for a new category.
Sep 28, 2013 · Some 6,000,000 U.S. teen-age girls live in a world all their own — a lovely, gay, enthusiastic, funny and blissful society almost untouched by the war.
- Jewish Coming of Age Tradition: Bar and Bat Mitzvah. Flickr: Krista Guenin. Around the world, young Jewish boys and girls celebrate their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at age 13 and 12 in order to demonstrate their commitment to their faith and recognize that they are now responsible for following Jewish law.
- The Sateré-Mawé Coming Of Age Tradition: Bullet Ant Initiation. Infinitus Possibilis. In the Brazilian Amazon, young boys belonging to the indigenous Sateré-Mawé tribe mark their coming of age when they turn 13 in a Bullet and Ant Initiation.
- Amish Coming of Age Tradition: Rumspringa. Wikimedia Commons. In Amish tradition, Rumspringa marks the time when youth turn 16 and are finally able to enjoy unsupervised weekends away from family.
- Hispanic Coming of Age Tradition: Quinceanera. Flickr: Christopher Michael. In many parts of Central and South America, young girls celebrate their Quinceanera when they turn 15 years old.
- The Rise of Compulsory Education
- The Postwar Economic Boom
- The Invention of The Car
As the U.S. economy shifted from a more localized agrarian society to a mass-production machine, families relocated closer to cities, and — at least initially — many sent their children to work in the factories. This triggered a countermovement to prevent kids from being forced to toil in mills. The solution: compulsory public education for kids. B...
A serious commercial interest in teenagers didn’t begin in earnest until after World War II. To entice marketers, teenagers needed money, and that money would come from two principal sources: the labor force and parents. The 1950s saw one of the great periods of economic expansion in American history. With full employment came rising wages for unio...
It might be a horrifying consideration for today’s singles, but a first date once meant an introductory chat in the living room with a girl’s parents. This might have been followed by a deliciously awkward family dinner. But cars emancipated romance from the stilted small talk of the family parlor. Just about everything a modern single person consi...
Aug 18, 2023 · Not to be confused with the biological process of adolescence, the cultural phenomenon of the teenager – anyone aged between 13 and 19 – developed in response to a booming economy that provided...
Teacher-approved stories, resources, and worksheets for teaching about real teens who changed the world throughout history, courtesy of Junior Scholastic , the middle school Social Studies classroom magazine.
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Jun 20, 2017 · How two world wars and the industrial revolution created the modern teenager. Most people point to Rebel Without a Cause, the seminal 1955 James Dean movie about youth rebelling against their...
