Like teenage girls across the Americas, Kassandra Rivas dreamed of having a quinceañera party, the rite of passage for ...

Nationwide, thousands of local and state police recruits are allowed into the profession only after passing simulated fights ...

One of the central elements of the condition of Black youth in the U.S. is that they are being socialized in a society full of dehumanizing systems. Pop culture, public education, politics and a host ...

(CNN) — The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...

There are no more "rites of passage" in larger modern American society because they are no longer needed to be considered an adult. A rite of passage is simply an activity that forces you to recognize ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped in, and ...

In a recent study, Ph.D. candidate Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal studied iconographic representations of children in the Classic (ca. 250–950 AD) and Post-classic (ca. 950–1539 AD) imagery, as well as in ...

I know Karens are hard. As a member of Gen X, I grew up surrounded by them. By Sarah Miller A love story. By Heather Havrilesky I had no history of cancer in my family. At 41, getting a mammogram was ...