{"product_id":"9781581120592","title":"Aching To Age","description":"During the adolescent years, young people seek to leave behind childhood and the age of \"informed consent\"--i.e, the years  when adults informed and expected children to consent!  Teenagers strive for adult roles and passionately seek ways to prove  their maturity to themselves, peers, and adults.  This quest for adult roles leads teens through a variety of rites of  passage both formal and informal.  Some rites of passage which involve youth\/adult partnerships delineate the movement from  childhood to adulthood in positive ways while young people (psychological orphans) who do not have adult support for rites of  passage often create their own rites which involve dangerous risk-taking and destructive behavior.    Aching To Age explores rites of passage both ancient and modern, formal and informal;  examines the place of these rites in  meeting the adolescent psychological quest for adulthood (adult roles); and also explores popular cultural practices by  adolescents  who lack or eschew established rites of passage.  Further, Aching To Age looks at the purpose of these rites in  the lives of adolescents and finally explores the importance of rites of passage and how adults who interact with adolescents  become partners with young people in the transition to adult roles and responsibilities.  ","brand":"Universal-Publishers.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040759136496,"sku":"9781581120592","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781581120592_p0.jpg?v=1763802424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781581120592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}