Discussion:
Rite of passage
Create a modern rite of passage for an adolescent girl and an adolescent boy that addresses the social demands facing adolescents today. Be thinking about how you might incorporate some of the following issues into your rite of passage:
a. The strength and changeability of peer relations
b. How media messages and peers affect sexual orientation development
c. The biological changes taking place during adolescence and how the changes affect the child's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development
Your paper should include separation, initiation, and reintegration, and should also offer an appropriate means for adolescents to:
a. Make the transition to adulthood
b. Be given solutions to some current problems of adolescents such as gangs, premature sexual activity, substance abuse, and school truancy