ents foster the character of children's socialization during early childhood and adolescence alike, and a host of social influences, from social class to ethnic culture, are likely to be factors of children's experience of family life. In any case, however, children are likely to seek autonomy and to "renegotiate" relationships with parents when they become adolescents. Indeed, renegotiation of one's status as self and as participant in family ecology can be seen as a permanent feature of family experience. In that regard, the so-called lifespan approach to psychology sees human development from childhood onward as in continuous transformation in a context of responses to unfolding experience. Goodnow, Miller, and Kessel (1995, p. 41) refer to "development through participation," which in general terms can be said to be consistent with the subjective experience of identity that remains consistent yet also changing by means of "successive reorganizations" (p. 43) in response to cultural and personal influences that it encounters over one's span of life. This
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