Emerging adult children and their parents can experience growing pains as they navigate a changing relationship. AJ_Watt/E+ via Getty Images As a professor of child development and family science, ...

For many emerging adults, graduating high school and/or starting college is the first time in life in which seemingly all aspects of life can change. Moving out of the home, finding new friends, ...

Decades ago, becoming an adult meant meeting “traditional” markers of finishing school, leaving home, entering the workforce, getting married, and having children (Settersten & Ray, 2010). For today’s ...

Many teenagers enter adulthood with significant risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a key time to address these risk factors and reduce the ...

Researchers cite violence as the most significant threat to those 18 to 29 in Massachusetts A new study by the Boston College School of Social Work cites violence as the most significant threat to the ...