Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10
million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They
attend schools that do not serve their needs, lack the support of
caring adults, and, as a result, are alienated from mainstream
society. African-American and Hispanic children, increasingly
segregated in disadvantaged neighborhoods, are particularly
vulnerable.
In Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today, a follow-up to Joy
Dryfoos's landmark volume, Adolescents at Risk (OUP, 1991), Joy
Dryfoos and Carol Barkin take a close look at the lives of young
people, identify some of their problems, and present solutions
based on state-of-the-art prevention and treatment strategies. They
examine important issues in adolescents' lives--sex, violence,
drugs, health, mental health, and education. Reviewing successful
prevention programs and policy studies, Dryfoos and Barkin
demonstrate that we know what to do to prevent high-risk behaviors:
young people need to establish relationships with adults; parents
need to be involved in their children's lives; and programs need to
be comprehensive, sensitive to cultural differences, and staffed by
highly trained personnel.
Dryfoos and Barkin argue that turning our backs on adolescents
will lead to disturbing consequences: the achievement gap will
grow, outcomes will worsen, school systems will struggle with the
growing disparities, and we as a nation will fall behind the rest
of the world in our capacity to educate our youth. If, however, we
decide that we want a better quality of life for our children, we
will insure that every young person has access to an excellent
education. Schools, youth workers, and parents cannotalone provide
a better quality of life for our adolescents, but each must play a
major role, and all must work together. Providing a roadmap for the
development and implementation of sound policies for American
teenagers in the twenty-first century, this volume is a must-read
for anyone interested in the future of our nation's youth.
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