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Middle childhood is a time when
children's social support figures are expanding beyond their parents, but their emotional and
biological capacities to deal with stress are still maturing,» Kertes explained.
As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted
children are more like their
biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from
middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.
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Child Abuse, Rape, Animal Rights, Gangs,
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