Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up

This book introduces young people to rites of passage into adulthood: what they are; what they offer; how they came to be stolen, destroyed, or co-opted in most cultural traditions; and how young people take responsibility for their own rites of passage into adulthood today.

Through real-life stories and quotes from young people across lines of race, class, culture, gender, and more; cutting-edge social science research; and step-by-step exercises, readers ages 16-28 and beyond are finding this book invaluable in supporting them on the path to true adulthood.