Human Development Views of 3 Authors

Skolnick's (1991) The Life Course Revolution discusses a number of ways in which social and cultural changes have evolved notions of the lifecycle at each of its stages from infancy and childhood to adulthood and old age. The author provides a number of factors that have evolved such notions, such as the extended lifespan of the elderly due to new medicines and medical technologies or the social institutions that arose to help youth in adolescence deal with the "storm and stress" of this developmental phase (Skolnick, 1991, p. 28). Ironically, such institutions only reinforced notions of this transition phase as "problematic and risky," (Skolnick, 1991, p. 28). Changes in notions of lifecycle phases have been so dramatic that many people find themselves in a life stage where there is no "cultural script" to guide us (Skolnick, 1991, p. 28).

Hernandez and Myers' (1993) Revolutions in Children's Lives provides an account of the change from the conventional family and household to contemporary family constellations which are radically different. From higher divorce rates to more single women deciding to have children without being married, many children live in one-parent families. The authors maintain that in the long-term, children who do not spend most of their formative years in a stable two-parent family tend to "�complete fewer years of schooling, enter lower-status occupations, and earn lower incomes" than their two-parent peers (Hernandez, & Myers, 1993, p.

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