Coverage of ethnicity and cultural issues has been expanded and integrated throughout every chapter, addressing both ethnic differences in development and similarities that cut across social and cultural backgrounds.
New content includes a new section on neighborhoods and their influences on development, and an expanded discussion of adolescents in the juvenile justice system and issues of trying adolescents as adults.
The seventh edition includes more than 800 new research study citations.
Information about gender differences is now integrated throughout the text.
A new ancillary, McGraw-Hill's Visual Assets Database for Lifespan Development (VAD), provides hundreds of video clips, audio clips, photos, and Web links free to adopters of McGraw-Hill books. Visit www.mhhe.com/vad for more information.
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