what is adolescence?

Answer 1

An age where the individual knows everything there is to know. It generally coincides with the period of time when someone else is paying all the individual's living expenses.

Answer 2

Adolescence is a period that is of fairly recent origin. Until the 20th century the division was children and adults. Marriage was associated with puberty and people went to work at an early age. With the beginning of the industrial society it became necessary to provide more education to labor. At the same time there was a movement to end the exploitation of child labor. Both of these trends tended to move children back into the schools in great numbers. Public - tax supported education became the norm. With this the delay of marriage became common since a school child could not support a family. This created a very unnatural period of life in which an individual was sexually mature but was discouraged by society from engaging in any sexual activities. This period of time from puberty to adulthood is referred to as adolescence. The actual ages vary from culture to culture. In the US it tends to be from 12 to 18 although the lower age is dropping.

Answer 3

Adolescence is the period when you are not considered a child anymore but you are transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Yet you are not an adult or a child anymore therefore you go need to find yourself to become someone more mature, because it is such a critical period during your life, adolescents tend to experience problems such as drugs, anorexia, violence, stealing etc... They are not able to find themselves until they reach the point where life starts making more sense

Answer 4

The teen age years.

Answer 5

The apprenticeship for morality instruction -- in essense, which taboos are off-limits.

Answer 6

the stage you exist in when you're not quite a child anymore, yet not an adult