Life-Span Development

C.
Prominent Concerns
1. Health and Well-being
2. Parenting and Education
3. Sociocultural Contexts (American Cultural Tapestry - context, culture, ethnicity and gender)
4. Social Policy (Generational inequity - older population doing better at the expense of younger)
II.
Periods of Development - Bernice Neugarten has argued that ours is an increasingly age-irrelevent society
A. Prenatal (conception to birth)
B. Infancy (birth to 24 months)
C. Early Childhood (preschool years)
D. Middle and Late Childhood (elementary school years)
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