{"id":242274,"date":"2024-07-11T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/coming-of-age-review-why-do-teenagers-take-such-risks-a-new-book-has-some-answers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:54","slug":"coming-of-age-review-why-do-teenagers-take-such-risks-a-new-book-has-some-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/coming-of-age-review-why-do-teenagers-take-such-risks-a-new-book-has-some-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming of Age review: Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" alt=\"New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/09123921\/SEI_211398165.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2438907\" data-caption=\"Teenage cliques can offer protection \u2013 or\u00a0enforce exclusion\" data-credit=\"Virginia Woods-Jack\/Millennium Images, UK\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Teenage cliques can offer protection \u2013 or\u00a0enforce exclusion<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Virginia Woods-Jack\/Millennium Images, UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/451093\/coming-of-age-by-foulkes-lucy\/9781847927293\">Coming of Age<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Lucy Foulkes (Bodley Head (UK); Vintage Digital (US))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the teen movie <i>Mean Girls<\/i>, protagonist Cady Heron arrives at a US high school having grown up in Africa. Baffled by her peers and the social hierarchies of school, she approaches things as her zoologist parents would \u2013 documenting the people around her as if they were animals living on the savannah.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, <i>Coming of Age: How adolescence shapes us<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25934573-900-why-being-more-open-about-mental-health-could-be-making-us-feel-worse\/\">psychologist Lucy Foulkes<\/a> takes a similar approach to decoding the rulebook of adolescence,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26334990-700-why-do-teenagers-take-such-risks-a-new-book-has-some-answers\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Teenage cliques can offer protection \u2013 or\u00a0enforce exclusion Virginia Woods-Jack\/Millennium Images, UK Coming of AgeLucy Foulkes (Bodley Head (UK); Vintage Digital (US)) In the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}