Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities (Penn State University Family Issues Symposia Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805853901 ISBN 13: 9780805853902

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the evolutionary roots of these behaviors, as well as policies and programs that represent best practices for addressing these issues in schools and communities. The text offers interdisciplinary expertise from scholars of psychology, social work, sociology, demography, economics, human development and family studies, and public policy.
 
Adolescents and young adults today face very different choices about family formation than did their parents’ generation, given such societal changes as the rise in cohabitation, the increase in divorce rates, and families having fewer children. These demographic trends are linked in important ways and provide a backdrop against which adolescents and emerging adults form and maintain romantic and sexual relationships.
 
Editors Crouter and Booth address such questions as:
*What are the ways in which early family and peer relationships give rise to romantic relationships in the late adolescent and early adult years?
*How do early romantic and sexual relationships influence individuals’ subsequent development and life choices, including family formation?
*To what extent are current trends in romantic and sexual relationships in adolescence and emerging adulthood problematic for individuals, families, and communities, and what are the most effective ways to address these issues at the level of practice, program, and policy?
 
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities is an enlightening compilation of essays for academicians and upper-lever undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of human development and family studies, sociology, and psychology, as well as for practitioners in those fields who work with families and adolescents. The chapters are accessible to a wide variety of audiences.

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Review

"...this volume on teenage romance and sexuality, edited by Crouter and Booth, provides a lively overview of  relatively recent research in this area. Perhaps more important, it points to issues and methods for further research in the continuously changing and dynamic field. Finally, the wealth of information in this book can serve as a jumping-off for explorations that extend to more diverse populations and circumstances."
―PsycCRITIQUES

About the Author

Alan Booth is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Human Development, and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 100 articles and in 2002 he received the American Sociological Association Family Section Distinguished Career Award.

Ann (Nan) C. Crouter is the Raymond and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the College of Health and Human Development and Professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University.

Anastasia Snyder is Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Science at the Ohio State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0805853901
• ISBN 13: 9780805853902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Crouter Ann C., Booth Alan