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...Roosevelt did not strike most people as promising enough to become one of the nation's greatest Presidents. His august Knickerbocker family had grown rich from generations of shrewd investments in real estate, banking, glass importing and even hardware. But in his youth--and for that matter in his adulthood--T.R. showed very little interest in adding to the family fortune. When Roosevelt was a toddler, his asthma began to overshadow everything he did. As he grew, Theodore was too "delicate" for school--until Harvard he was educated at home--and too weak to stand up to other boys...
Thus began the pattern of his adulthood, to work fiercely in the East for the causes he cared about, writing and politicking, until he was so weary that he headed West to regain his health. Nature replenished him when he was depleted. When Alice died in February 1884, shortly after giving birth to a daughter who would share her name, T.R. headed to the Dakotas to find solace for his grief...
...Young people who "age out" of foster care because they fail to get adopted by the time they turn 18 are especially at risk for homelessness, unemployment and incarceration. "When you grow up in foster care, you just don't get the skills it takes to develop a successful adulthood," says Brenda McCreight, author of Parenting Your Older Adopted Child...
...some cases even conduct background checks on outsiders invited to the event. The rules have sparked school-board showdowns across the country. Administrators say they just want to keep kids safe. Graduating 17- and 18-year-olds who view the prom as a rite of passage into adulthood complain that they are being treated like children...
...only remnants of autonomy we’ve been left with. After all, in addition to damaging the sense of community that many of us long for, the removal of the element of choice from such a hugely significant part of all our lives is an affront to our adulthood. Once we arrive here, we’re expected to make all sorts of decisions that will affect us for years to come. From courses to concentration choice to extracurriculars, jobs and internships, we are more or less left to our own devices—and we like it that...