Edited by Timothy J Owens, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A. Sandra L. Hofferth, University of Maryland
Description Produced under the auspices of the Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association, this volume
provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions reflect: demographic
analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of children's lives; children and youth in historical and cross-cultural perspective; issues
of development in social context; children and public policy; and social and psychological dynamics of childhood and adolescence.