Foods and Nutrition 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Puberty, Menarche, Scrotum

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Prof

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Adolescent moodiness: biological, psychological, and social forces combine to make adolescence a time of deeper valleys and higher peaks in emotional experience, although pubertal hormone levels are linked to greater moodiness, these relationships are not strong, negative moods are linked to a greater number of negative life events. Early pubertal timing, parental divorce, single parent an stepfamily homes, large family size, little or no religious involvement, weak parental monitoring, disrupted parent child communication, sexually active friends and older siblings, poor school performance, lower educational aspirations, and tendency to engage in norm violating acts, including alcohol and drug use and delinquency: many of these factors are associated with growing up in a low income family, living in hazardous neighbourhood increases the likelihood that, early and prolonged father absence predicts higher rates of intercourse and pregnancy among teenagers with be sexually active adolescent girls.