Rite Of Passage

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According to the American Heritage online dictionary, a rite of passage is, “any important act or event that serves to mark a passage from one stage of life to another.” In this paper there will be a suggestion for a modern rite of passage for both male and female. This paper will also entail on the strength and changeability of peer relations, how media messages and peers affect sexual orientation development and how the biological, physical, cognitive, emotional, and social aspects that affect this process. Rites of passage begin centuries ago around the world, where variety of cultures and traditional societies has worked to initiate the transition of a human development from one stage to another. The rite of passage is a combination of separation, initiation, and reintegration. Within this process, an adolescent is separate his or her selves from family, peers, and start his journey into adulthood. This process would give the adolescent clarity and give new perspectives and status in the adult life. The rite of passage, also known as coming of age, or making of an adult, offers many alternative ways boys and girls can work at becoming an adult. In many culture such process is of great importance (Scott, D. G.,1998). In today’s society children do not have the opportunity to participate in traditional rites of passage. Children nowadays will established their own rites of passage where it involves, sex, drugs, gang initiation, and tattooing or body piercing. Some of these types of initiation can be deadly or unhealthy. For examples; body piercing and tattooing can cause infection if equipment is not being sterile properly. For those adolescents who gets body piercing and tattooing will not be able to donate blood due to the scare of blood contaminations (McGuinness, 2006). The Need for Rite of Passage Western culture does not allow children to
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