Values – and capital – are clearly passed down from one generation to the next.
Teens are questioning the suggestion that they can’t get their stories straight and that abusive behaviour is to be expected at their age. Here teens from the 1980s pose for a time capsule.
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Last week’s hearing with Brett Kavanaugh raised questions about how responsible we are for our youthful actions. A legal scholar says that youthful inexperience doesn’t let us off the hook.
Over the course of two years, a sociologist studied a group of affluent, white kids to see how they made sense of sensitive racial issues like privilege, unequal opportunity and police violence.
Research shows that young women are more ambivalent than young men when it comes to employment opportunities and other reasons to relocate to rural communities.
Young people know what’s good for them.
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Melissa Kang, University of Technology Sydney and Lena Sanci, The University of Melbourne
The My Health Record brings a unique set of confidentiality concerns for young people under 18. These need to be better addressed to ensure teens don’t forego important health care.