Sentences with phrase «toward social maturity»
Moving back and forth in a holding pattern, instead of having an outward focus of wider and wider concentric circles of social growth away from the home of origin has a retarding effect on childhood security, and disrupts the teenager's progress toward social maturity and emotional competence.
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It remains to show what this implies for individual ethics, for social ethics, and for the progress toward spiritual maturity of the Christian.
Some breeds as a whole take longer to reach social maturity (golden retrievers, labrador retrievers, standard poodles), while others are more open lifelong in general (scent hounds as a group tend toward being dog social lifelong as a function of how they were bred to work in groups for humans).
Inter-Cat Aggression Male, and more rarely female, cats may demonstrate aggression toward other male cats as they approach social maturity between two and four years of age.