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Human Growth and Development / Unit 12   HGD 1680 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Staying Close

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The idea

Most young adults do not move far: about sixty percent live within ten miles of their childhood home, and about eighty percent within a hundred.

In practice

Proximity increasing contact and intergenerational solidarity: interaction, affection, shared values, mutual help and shared norms.

Where people slip

Staying close is the norm, not the exception, for American young adults.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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