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Article: "You learn and learn and learn.... and then you are an adult": parental perceptions of adolescence in contemporary Swaziland.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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The universality of adolescence, as a developmental period apart from childhood and adulthood, has been investigated, debated, and romanticized in the literature both historically and cross-culturally. This paper examines Swaziland, a small country in Southern Africa, as a case study in order to explore whether or not the Swazi people conceptualize this phase of life as a separate developmental period. It also analyzes common parental perceptions of the adolescent years, and what constitutes the difference between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Finally, it qualitatively examines the behaviors which parents associate with becoming adults.
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