Kallmann syndrome is a genetic condition where the primary symptom is a failure to start puberty or a failure to fully complete it.

Some cultures in Africa define adult at age 13.

The age of 21 was the legal age for both civil majority and marriage for both men and women.

The point at which a child becomes an adolescent is defined by the onset of puberty or by the beginning of the teenage stage.

In the developing world about 90 of children have been infected by age 10 and thus are immune by adulthood.

In ancient and medieval societies, it was common for girls to be betrothed at or even before puberty.

For example, Christian ecclesiastical law forbade marriage of a girl before the age of puberty.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will shape the world in which today's children will reach adulthood, and many of the Goals address issues of central concern for young people now, such as poverty, education, employment and HIV AIDS.

The puppy we receive as a child is old by the time we reach adulthood.

And you think about it, you know, grade four my wife and I, we say age seven is the age of reason, so they're into the age of reason. And they're pre puberty.

Each generation, many offspring fail to survive to an age of reproduction because of limited resources.

Booklouse eggs take 2 to 4 weeks to hatch and can reach adulthood approximately 2 months later.

In rare cases, a woman's ovaries stop working at a very early age, ranging anywhere from the age of puberty to age 40, and this is known as premature ovarian failure (POF).

Increased schooling of mothers has a measureable impact on their children s health, education, and adult productivity.

Symptoms of some rare diseases may appear at birth or in childhood, whereas others only appear once adulthood is reached.

So it's this great window where they actually are you can influence them. You know what happens at puberty?

All the nominal connections, in numbers and quantities, were thought until the last 20 years thought to be more or less fixed when we reached adult age.

Certainly, in some studies, social class in adulthood seems to explain a lot of the link between intelligence and death.

Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant, and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.

In males, germ cell tumors of the testis occur typically after puberty and are malignant (testicular cancer).

At the start of the game, the hero is known as Little Sparrow (Sparrow when the Hero reaches adulthood).

The report stated that the age for marriage was 15 for girls and 18 for boys, while the age of majority in the country was 21, and that efforts were being made to align the marriagable age for both sexes at 18.

For individuals who were born in Italy to foreign parents but who have resided in Italy continuously from birth to adulthood.

And again, we know from long term monitoring that more of these hand raised chicks survive to adulthood and breeding age than do parent raised chicks.

Child protection is a set of usually government run services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability.

As the child grows to become an adult so far, it has been a consumer, but the growth of a human being lies in his or her capacity to contribute, to be a contributor.

There have been several recorded cases in history of children emerging from the wilderness in late childhood or early adolescence, having presumably been abandoned at an early age.

Now, the cartoon is not such an exaggeration, because studies of identical twins who were separated at birth and then tested in adulthood show that they have astonishing similarities.

He felt that deprivation of this sense of freedom during childhood, and the consequent unhappiness experienced by the repressed child, was responsible for many of the psychological disorders of adulthood.

another person being allowed to sell, rent out, or show the young person a film, a cinema being allowed to let a young person (under 18) enterThe legal definition of entering adulthood usually varies between ages 16 21, depending on the region in question.

Furthermore, under most customs, the mother is granted custody of her sons until the age of puberty and her daughters until they marry however, quite often, mothers may, at best, have custody of the children only until they are seven years old. In the worst case scenario, custody is denied regardless of the child's age.

And of course, these endocrine disruptors are things that are implicated in the breast cancer epidemic, the obesity epidemic, the two and a half year drop in the average age of onset of puberty in young girls and other related things.

It is important to Kevin's parents that he can experience his parent's life stance as a natural standpoint on his journey to adulthood and in his meeting with other life stances and philosophies.

As a result of this influential conceptualization of development, these environments from the family to economic and political structures have come to be viewed as part of the life course from childhood through adulthood.

Coronary heart disease The approximate prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is 50 , with a prevalence of 37 in patients with premature coronary artery disease (age 45), particularly in women.

They begin in childhood and may persist into adulthood.

In the past, a person usually moved from the status of child directly to the status of adult, often with this shift being marked by some type of coming of age test or ceremony.

Current research suggests that the rates of self harm are much higher among young people with the average age of onset between 14 and 24.

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 1st Earl of Cambridge, KG (5 June 1341 1 August 1402) was a younger son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, the fourth of this Royal couple's five sons who lived to adulthood.

When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.

Adulthood does not give big people the right to belittle childhood.

Abdulaziz had 45 sons of whom 36 survived to adulthood and had children of their own.

Manuel and Maria were married in Alcácer do Sal on 30 October 1500, and had 10 children, eight of whom reached adulthood, including King John III of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress Isabella of Portugal, and Beatrice, Duchess of Savoy.

I carried that fascination with me into adulthood, and it grew as my grasp on it all increased.

The young go through three molts over the course of several years before reaching adulthood.