A World They Never Knew: The Family and Social Change.

Abstract

In our society, adolescence has traditionally been viewed as a more difficult period in the lives of children and their parents than either the middle-childhood years which precede it or the years of emerging adulthood which follow it. While a number of recent investigations suggest that the extent of adolescent and parental turmoil during this period has frequently been exaggerated,1 there is, nevertheless, general agreement that adolescence, and particularly early adolescence, is likely to be a challenging and sometimes trying time for both the young themselves and their parents.2 Furthermore, the difficulties of this period appear to be in creasing?partly as a consequence of continuing changes in the family itself and in its relations to society, and partly as a consequence of the accelerated rate of these changes. The purposes of this essay are, first, to examine briefly the nature of some of these changes, and then to consider some of their effects, presumed and actual, upon contemporary adolescents and their parents. Finally, an effort will be made to suggest some of the steps that will have to be taken if we are to fulfill our responsibilities to society's most valuable resource?its adolescent young.

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