Sentences with phrase «defined by middle age»

I think the plain answer is that the middle class is defined by middle age — by those who are no longer young but not yet old, and therefore completely break the frame of Emersonian generation - gap analysis.

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In any case, the neoconservatives believed that justice and freedom as defined by the young and their middle - aged camp followers were at best caricatures and at worst outright perversions of those terms, properly understood.

They may have some hormonal ups and downs, but just as women don't appreciate being grouped together and defined by exaggerated stories of PMS and men don't like every decision they make in middle - age to be labeled evidence of a midlife crisis, teens don't deserve that kind of disrespectful stereotyping, either.

Logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate the mediation hypotheses, using an established 3 - step procedure.48 First, we investigated whether there was a significant bivariate association between a high level of maladaptive parenting (operationally defined as ≥ 3 maladaptive parenting behaviors) or abuse during childhood or early adolescence (by a mean age of 14 years) and risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood (reported at a mean age of 22 years) and whether the magnitude of this association was reduced when interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence (reported at a mean age of 16 years) were controlled statistically.