Often the severe emotional damage to abused children does not
surface until adolescence or even later, when many abused children become abusing parents.
So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't
emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.
The research, published with the children's charity the National Children's Bureau, showed that girls and boys had similar levels of emotional problems throughout
childhood until adolescence when problems became more prevalent in girls.
By age 2, growth in height usually continues at a fairly steady rate of about 2 1/2 inches (6 centimeters) per
year until adolescence.
Instead, it
rises until adolescence and then falls by the time the individual reaches early adulthood to a much lower level.
In another classical premature aging disease, Werner syndrome (WS), symptoms don't
begin until adolescence or early adulthood.
She says it is not unusual for dyslexics to go
unrecognized until adolescence and beyond, a systemic shortcoming that effectively abandons struggling young readers during the most critical years of learning.
I have no idea how some Cavalier breeders sell eight week old puppies as show dogs, and believe it some do, when we often run puppies
on until adolescence and beyond until we're sure we have a contender.
A 1996 study of young children's sleep habits in Japan, Italy, and the U.S. revealed that Japanese children actually sleep between their
parents until adolescence.
A recent study of anxiety trajectories over a wide age range (Parrigon & Kerns, 2016) found low early attachment to fathers predicted that young children would maintain anxiety
levels until adolescence.
Cross-gender behavior carries a greater social stigma for boys than girls; girls with gender identity disorder experience less overall social rejection, at
least until adolescence.
Here's a very broad field guide to child development from day one
until adolescence.
«Acquired» lactose intolerance, or what we normally think of when we think of lactose intolerance, will almost always not develop until after 4 years of age (and often not
until adolescence).