Some articles on adults, adult:
... Attachment in adults deals with the theory of attachment in adult romantic relationships ... Attachment theory was extended to adult romantic relationships in the late 1980s ... Four styles of attachment have been identified in adults secure, anxious–preoccupied, dismissive–avoidant, and fearful–avoidant ...
... well as representations of tools used by adults are readily found at archaeological sites ... strong, learn cause and effect, explore relationships, and practice skills they will need as adults ... Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, remember and reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies ...
... Memoirist and novelist Flora Thompson was first published in her thirties but is most famous for the semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, the first volume of which was published when she was 63 ... Frank McCourt didn't publish his first book Angela's Ashes which he later won the Pulizer Prize for until he was 66 ...
... Adults' eyes, cere, and legs are yellow to yellow-orange ... In the eastern subspecies, adults have dark gray upperparts with lighter heads ... In the western subspecies, adults are also dark above, but have a grayish throat and barring mixed with rufous on the underparts ...
... Adults have four attachment styles secure, anxious–preoccupied, dismissive–avoidant, and fearful–avoidant ... The secure attachment style in adults corresponds to the secure attachment style in children ... The anxious–preoccupied attachment style in adults corresponds to the anxious–ambivalent attachment style in children ...
Famous quotes containing the word adults:
“The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.”
—T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)
“Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)