TY - BOOK AU - Sheehy,Gail TI - New passages: mapping your life across time SN - 0394589130 (acid-free paper) U1 - 305.24 20 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Adulthood KW - Maturation (Psychology) KW - Socialization KW - Middle-aged persons KW - Psychology KW - Middle age KW - Social aspects KW - Aging KW - Life change events KW - Personality development KW - Life Change Events KW - Personality Development KW - Middle aged persons KW - psychology KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - 1980- N1 - Sequel to: Passages; Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-473) and index N2 - People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty- five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life ER -