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Virginia Commonwealth University

Theses and Dissertations

2016

Community house

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Interhouse: A Place For Growing Up And Growing Adults, Nilufar Makhamatova Jan 2016

Interhouse: A Place For Growing Up And Growing Adults, Nilufar Makhamatova

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Society has become increasingly segregated by age which lessens the opportunities for communication between generations. Before the Internet, children and adolescents typically learned through traditional means - their parents, school teachers, and life experiences. Adults believed they were capable of recognizing and addressing the needs of children and adolescents. (Strom & Strom, 2012) Now, the global media is widely accessed by people of all ages which gives it the ability to influence a large population in different ways. This has led to children and adolescents being more heavily influenced and educated by the media than other traditional sources. Adolescents, in …