Word: adulthoods
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Presented with a choice that makes them appear either selfish or selfless, many "silence" their distinctive voice. They become less confident and more tentative in offering their opinions -- a trait that often persists into adulthood. "We start to hear the breathy voice," says Gilligan. "After a while, they speak in a way that's disconnected from how they are really feeling." Speech becomes punctuated with passive "I don't knows." Consider Anna. At age 12, the insidious words cropped up only 21 times during an interview. By age 14, they numbered...
Despite this hint of shame, Falkner's experience was unusually easy. Many families reject lesbian daughters as they reach adulthood, and in turn, many lesbians do not reconcile themselves to their nature until after marrying and, frequently, having children. One Dallas-based businesswoman says she came out just a year ago, at age 65, after decades of unhappy marriage and raising four sons. In all, an estimated 1.5 million U.S. lesbians are mothers. Most bore their children while married, though adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school...
Those permitted to be born may not survive into adulthood because of deliberate neglect. Studies show that female children in India and Bangladesh are breast-fed for a shorter period and given less nourishing meals than males. In rural China when food is scarce, anthropologists report, girls are more likely to suffer from chronic malnutrition than their brothers...
...spent centuries trying to hide from children," says Meyrowitz. "The average child watching television sees adults hitting each other, killing each other, breaking down and crying. It teaches kids that adults don't always know what they're doing." N.Y.U.'s Postman believes TV, by revealing the "secrets" of adulthood, has virtually destroyed the notion of childhood as a discrete period of innocence. "What I see happening is a blurring of childhood and adulthood," he says. "We have more adultlike children and more childlike adults...
Were we ever this young, this sure, this innocent? There is a bittersweet melancholy about seeing someone on the brink of adulthood, all elbows and knees and untested conviction. Four years. It goes so quickly, but who can tell them? On my last day, I steal out early, trying not to disturb my two roommates. Danielle sleeps clutching her black-and-white teddy bear. Jennie has left a note on her desk. Underneath her name she has drawn a smile face...