ABSTRACT
The chapters by Winfield (chap. 6) and Burton, Allison, and Obeidallah (chap. 7) provide a vivid picture of the lives of youth who are growing up in circumstances seen by most researchers only in media snapshots. These are youth who skip school at a very young age to carry out important family responsibilities; who at an early age have witnessed so much violence and death that they acquire “truncated” views of their own life spans; and who at far too young an age recognize that many opportunities for success in the mainstream culture are closed to them.
