in consider this destination, an adulthood in n adulthood in consider this destination, an adulthoodisolation, which is how many adults with autism live now. do you have it worked out, what his future will be once he turns 21? >> once he turns 21, no. 21? >> once he turns 21, no. >> reporter: tyler's dad is a senior official at autism speaks, the nation's largest advocacy group, yet even he struggles to figure out tyler's future. >> reporte roup, yet even the map came to e out tyler's the result of two long weekends e out tyler's the result of two long weekends where tyler's mom and dad ed those who are o are connected to tyler and committed to keeping that connection. keeping thau have the right to an awesome future. >> reporter: amanda is the have the right tith tyler every ler everchool. bob is one of the youth leaders at their church. bob attends th heather, a close family friend. >> i'm here because i love people nd i want to be one of the unconditional people people nd i want to be one of the unconditional people in his life. >> i doesn't go throuause it's >> i doesn't go throu

it's something that jeff barnett at clark university is calling emerging adulthood.ng different that they need to do to figure out what the next stage of their life is going to be before they become true adults. >> and dale, developmentally there's been research i know as to how we define the development of adults and at what point are you truly. is the definition truly changing? >> it is changing and, you know, i think what we need to pay attention to is that age doesn't really define maturity and certainly doesn't define adulthood as we thought it did. what we're seeing is that these young people are a bit more ambivalent about their place in the world as they are also aware of the possibilities that are available to them and they're excited about them. at the same time they're a bit hessent about what they might be able to do and how they might be able to do it. they don't necessarily feel so secure within themselves at this time in their 20s as we might have thought they would have felt. >> right. >> mind you, not too many of us have felt that secure in our 20s.

how would the children escaped stigma as they reach adulthood will be a measure of how much of rwanda has managed to but the past behind it. >> since the film was made, jean-claude as learned the details of his conception. the bosnian parliament is the latest of several in europe, including belgium and spain, discuss of banned. france has already announced a ban. meanwhile in britain, a group of women who wear the mekhab have launched a campaign called "unveiled justice." we spoke to women for and against the avail. -- the veil. >> why are increasing numbers of young british women wearing the veil of their own volition? most of them acknowledge there are two opinions. on the streets, some fay's hostility and abuse. and yet they continue to follow this particular interpretation of their faith. one that is becoming increasingly controversial. these women are in their twenties. there were brought up in britain and university educated. renaissa has a professional job. they are part of the new generation of women committed to defending their right to wear the veil. >> years ago, i was in t

. >> at present, germans have to be 18 years old, the legal age of adulthood, before they can get a license. the pilot schemes are an attempt to see the effect of younger drivers on road safety. beginners must be accompanied by an experienced motorists over the ageof 30 until they are 18 years old. >> i do not think it is bad to have my mom next to me in the car. it means i have a partner teaching me to drive. >> the first few driving experiences can be scary, especially for parents, but studies have shown that 17 year olds have up to 30% fewer accidents in their first three months than drivers to start at the age of a team. -- drivers who start at the age of 18. >> it probably has to do with them being able to drive alone, and sometimes there is peer pressure to take risks. things can get out of control. >> beginning drivers still make up 20% of traffic casualties. issuing driver's licenses at the age of 17, with extra training and protection, could be a step toward a safer roads for everyone. >> to make those roads safer, germany has very strict testing procedures for new drivers, who wil

. -- housed with adulthoods. and we're very excited that she's here. she is actually here with us today. and she also was the first one to come up with the idea of the public defender. she is the founder of the public defender. this is 80 years before the united states supreme court decided to the gideon case where it that he would the states had to provide counsel and her name is clara shortridge fultz. and clara, are you in the house? let's give it up. [applause] >> my name is clara shortridge fultz. and they call me the lady lawyer. as a child i wanted to be a lawyer. i went to my father and told him i want to be a lawyer and he said you would make a great lawyer. if you were a boy. so i buried that dream. but i never forgot. at 15, i met a handsome union soldier named jeremiah fultz and we eloped. we moved west to greener pasttures. first to oregon. then san jose, california. it was around 1876 and i had just had my fifth child. i was working at home as a dress maker and the sheriff came to the door and took my sewing machine for a debt that my hus

. >> reporter: it's a hard fact of life of reaching adulthood in the foster care system. for foster kids, it means the one entipty that has cared for them and spompted them since interest childhood, the state of california, now has to cut them off. >> 70% of those young people are homeless, incarcerated as young adults. they are pregnant. it's a sad situation. >> reporter: this man runs a small san jose nonprofit that provides housing, gas and food vouchers for those who ee nance mate out of the system -- ee mans nate out of the system. >> this is really setting them up to fail. >> reporter: chapman says a proposed change in law could make a difference for thousands. bill 12 would extend the amount of time a young person can stay in foster care from age 18 to 21. the bill has some strong backing. quarterbacking that is. 49er player alex smith testified before a committee in favor of the bill. >> it used to be 21. we took it down to 18. that was cheaper but i think we found it doesn't make sense because in the end, these kids end up in jail, on the system, a strain on the

we're talking about them, this idea there's emerging adulthood we haven't factored in. teenager, and all of a sudden become an adult. there's an emerging place. at what point do we worry if a child is lackadaisical at home, struggling, really not looking at anything in terms of a future? then we do have an issue. >> you have to worry if there's not a plan. if your emerging adult is not heading in any direction at all. if they're trying something at least, if they have to fail and have to try again, they're doing fine. it may take them most of their 20s to find what they really want to do. if they don't have a plan, they seem depressed and defeated, then it's time to worry. >> lack of motivation, expectation. >> okay, all right. there you go. you laid it out for us. dr. janet taylor and jeffrey arnett, thank you. and up next, all things olives with italian chef giada de laurentiis. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg w

communicating to the city because we really have to look at young people that our aging out into adulthood and may not have -- they are not going to leave with the skills from school in order to advance successfully, and what we need to do to really prioritize these individuals in other programs that you are describing? whether it is job corps or -- then my ged program. supervisor dufty: there are a number of things we can do, so i think it is essential that there be some strong lines of communication from your leadership and what is going to happen with tarc to the city as a whole. i think we're looking at young people who if the school does not have the tool box to intervene to really get somebody graduating and ready to go on to the next step, whether is training or education, then we have really got to look at meaningfully providing other options. i guess i want to open the discussion and say i think we have got to prioritize the. for us as policy makers, there may be ways that we legislatively or from a funding standpoint create that priority in terms of workforce programs that the ci

. >> reporter: young children showing signs of adulthood much too soon. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> and joining us now is dr. alanna lavine, a practicing pediatrician and spokesperson for the american academy of pediatrics. good evening. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> you say that this is, while shocking, not surprising to you. why? >> it's true. i'm seeing it in my practice. i'm seeing young girls coming in not knowing what their breast buds are. they are not realizing what it is because it is earlier than it was in the past. >> it is said to be found as young as 7. what are parents to do? what is your best advice based on your experience? >> the first thing parents need to do is understand this is happening so they can talk to their children beforehand so before breasts start to develop the children know what's happening to them. the second thing parents can do is really encourage a healthy lifestyle for children. we are not sure 100% of all the causes but clearly they are multifactorial but weight plays a role, genetics, the environme

name or children when they're born and give us little temporary google names so we can change in adulthood when we become responsible and don't post dirty pictures of ourselves online i mean no i find this remark very very disturbing but more so disturbing because of who it's coming from i mean essentially the c.e.o. of history's greatest privacy killing machine google you know this is a company that is successful because it knows so much information about us i mean they read our emails they know what we browse for they know where we live and where we're going through google maps and so to have this much this vast amount of personal information about us really makes it difficult for for google to you know control sort of say oh it's all up to you whether this information about you is bad or not i mean the fact of the matter with google is that in this statement what eric schmidt is saying to me is hey my company is not going to do anything in terms of storing less info about you so it's on you if you don't like what's out there and then ducking responsibility is not only on you i like you

that puts off getting married that puts off becoming financially independent that sort of delays adulthood there and then the third layer i don't think it really has anything to do with with the nature of our generation or the nature of twenty somethings it's the economy you know when there's not a lot of jobs that are out there then you're going to have a lot more twenty something's going back into the ok we will get to the economy but first i want to talk about our society you know we're so quick to to classify to categorize everything and then when you think about it you know what is an adult really you see that. certain laws the fact that you can go fight in the military when you're eighteen and you can't drink until you're twenty one you can in some states get your driver's license when you're sixteen you can't rent a car without paying like forty dollars a day extra until you're twenty five so it's pretty clear to me that no one has really decided you know what an adult is yet so we do we have to classify it that way i'm exaggerating name someone the government seems just as ambivale

tara started drinking at 14, up into adulthood, that struggle with this same thing. do you reach that lost little girl at a pint like this? what's your solution? how do you do it? >> well, it's being familiar with the way they feel. i've seen through -- being at a recovery center, i see people every single day, there's consistencies in the way they feel about themselves. just like tara had said, how celebrities, how people in general try to treat that is slew ego, where as small esteemable acts is what rebuilds the spirit. and it takes time. the thing -- you could go anywhere in the world for a length of time, a short length of time, and the results are going to be the same. but this is a chronic illness, it's going to be needed. it's going to need to be treated indefinitely. it's something she'll need to deal with every single day, her recovery in one form or another to become recovered. otherwise, it's a vicious cycle, and it doesn't matter who they are, it doesn't matter where they're, from whether it's celebrity or bowery street drunk. everybody has the same oppo

tara started drink at 14 up until adulthood, and struggled with the same thing.ara said, how do you reach that lost little girl at a point like this? what is your solution? how do you do it? >> well, it's being familiar with the way that they feel. i see the inconsistencies and the way they feel about themselves. just like tara said, how people try to treat that is through ego, and small acts, and you can go anywhere in the world for a short length of time and the results will be the same, but this is a chronic illness. it's going to be needed -- it's going to be need to be treated indefinitely. it's something that she will need to go every single day and deal with her recovery in one form or another to become recovered. otherwise, it's just a vicious cycle. it doesn't matter who they are or where it's from or whether it's a celebrity or a drunk, it's everybody has the same opportunity if they want it, and she just has to want it bad enough. >>> stay with me, guys. that's the good in. more when "larry king" returns. t immediate comfort... ... and, you could save

by the time we reach adulthood these difficult tasks have become effortless. in, most of what the motor system does is taken for granted until it is interrupted by injury or disease. tonight we'll examine two devastating motor illnesses, stroke and a.l.s., also known as lou gehrig's disease. both of these diseases are tragically common stroke is the leading cause of death in the united states. but for those who survive, the brain'splastyty shows remarkable recovery. despite decades of research, a.l.s. is 1200% fatal. joining me this evening is a remarkable group of scientists who have devoted their careers and their lives to understanding hui the brain controls movement. they are thomas jess is, he studies circuits that forms the basis for the entire motor system. he is a howard hughes medical investigator. daniel wolpert, his research uses mechanical models that mimic human behavior. he heads the wolpert lab at cambridge university in england. john krakauer, he is interested in how the brains learns new skills and how it can regain function even after stroke

mine has recently shown that that region can develop even if you don't learn to read uil well into adulthood. so he found, first of owl he found that region -- of all he fond that region in chinese characters but then he found a bunch of chinese ill lit ruts and scanned them and then he taught them to read and then he scanned them again. and there it was. some of these people were 40 when they learned to read and that region still developed. so some of these reasons are extremely plastic and can develop late in life. >> charlie: they come alive so to speak. >> that's right. >> the plasticity that people like nancy and others have shown in the brains is very impressive and it i& theand the critical po exist. there are some aspects of visual development and other kinds of development that do end at an age of three four or five. it's a vision that's very clear. if you grow up with your eyes misaligned so they don't point in the same direction or you have a subsequent, th squint, tr vision, department in space by comparing the images in the two eyes break down and they lose the ability to have t

men and women who have grown into adulthood resisting diseases because they had childhood immunizations against polio or measles. these are but a few of the faces of global health, people who are not only alive but also contributing as parents, workers, and citizens thanks to the government organizations, foundations, and universities like johns hopkins that collaborate to bring medical care and education about healthy behavior to more parts of the world. these are also the faces of americans' commitment. no nation in history has done more to improve global health. we have led the way on some of the greatest public health achievements of our time. smallpox plague humankind for thousands of years until we helped ended with the world health organization's eradication campaign in the 1960's and 1970's. the expanded program on immunization has brought life- saving vaccines to nearly 80% of the world's children, up from less than 5% when the program began 36 years ago, and it has done so in large part thanks to u.s. dollars and support. the global distribution of micronutrients, which we hel

men and women who have grown into adulthood resisting diseases because they had childhood immunizations against polio, measles. these are but a few of the faces of global health that i have seen. people who contribute as parents, workers, and citizens. thanks to the governments, organizations, foundations, and universities like johns hopkins who collaborate to bring medical care about healthy behavior to more parts of the world. these are also the faces of america's commitment. no nation in history has done more to improve global health. we have led the way on some of the greatest public health achievements of our time. smallpox played human kind for thousands of years until we helped end -- smallpox plagued humankind for thousands of years. lifesaving vaccines to nearly 80% of the world's children, up from less than 5% when the program began 36 years ago. it has done so in large part thanks to u.s. dollars and supports. the global distribution of micro nutrients has protected the health of many millions of young children and pregnant women. we are the global leader in the fight against

tragic to consider this destination, an adulthood in isolation, which is how many adults with autismed out what his future will be once he turns 21? >> once he turns 21, no. >> reporter: and that's how the map came to be. the result of two long weekends where tyler's mom and dad gathered those who are connected to tyler and committed to keeping that connection. >> you have the right to an awesome future -- >> reporter: amanda is the teacher who is with tyler every day in school. bob is one of the youth leaders at their church. because it's a fact his mom and dad will not be there forever. >> i don't know a parent who doesn't go through that emotional feeling of what happens if i go before my child does? >> which is the way it's supposed to be. >> which is the way it's supposed to be. >> reporter: which is why that map has a place also for a younger generation. >> you know, sounds like a cliche but it does take a village. >> reporter: a village that families like the bells are putting together for themselves for children who will be adults, for a son who will soon be a man. john donva

some german still not disclose until adulthood -- some children do not disclose until then, but we have increased awareness, and they're more likely to report a sinner. of all kids in the study who participated, 73% made a full disclosure. 12% made a partial disclosure. 10% of kids made no disclosure. they did not deny, but did not disclose. 5% of the 1000 interviews denied anything occurred. girls are more likely to disclose. the bottom line is, they talk better than boys do. the disclosure rates were also higher for older kids. the least likely to report or disclose is a young boy. they have of a harder time to report abuse according to this study, than do girls. they also looked at the impact of a child making a prior disclosure. those who had, before they came to the cac -- the had actually told someone about something happening to them, 81% disclosed during the forensic interview. but for children who had not, but for whom there was enough indication, they did disclose. if they have previously disclosed, they are also more likely to disclose. here are the kids who did, the kids who

babies brought into the world with the help of trained midwives, men and women who have grown into adulthood resisting diseases because they had childhood immunizations against polio or measles. now, these are but a few of the faces of global health that i have seen, people who are not only alive, but also contributing as parents, workers, and citizens, thanks to the governments, organizations, foundations, and universities like johns hopkins who collaborate to bring medical care and education about healthy behavior to more parts of the world. these are also the faces of america's commitment. no nation in history has done more to improve global health. we have led the way on some of the greatest health achievements of our time. smallpox plagued humankind for thousands of years until we helped end it through the world health organization's eradication campaign in the 1960's and 1970's. the expanded program on immunization has brought life- saving vaccines to nearly 80% of the world's children, up from less than 5% when the program began 36 years ago, and it has done so in large part thanks to

babies brought into the world with the help of trained midwives, men and women who have grown into adulthood resisting diseases because they had childhood immunizations against polio or measles now, these are but a few of the faces of global health that i have seen, people who are not only alive, but also contributing as parents, workers, and citizens, thanks to the governments, organizations, foundations, and universities like johns hopkins who collaborate to bring medical care and education about healthy behavior to more parts of the world. these are also the faces of america's commitment. no nation in history has done more to improve global health. we have led the way on some of the greatest health achievements of our time. smallpox plagued humankind for thousands of years until we helped end it through the world health organization's eradication campaign in the 1960's and 1970's. the expanded program on immunization has brought life- saving vaccines to nearly 80% of the world's children, up from less than 5% when the program began 36 years ago, and it has done so in large part thanks to

stuff forever if you're diagnosed once, does that mean it follows you through adolescence into young adulthoodake their kids off of medicine, but they seem to be doing somewhat better in school. i think it's that looming question mark, over our medication of children, whether correct, or in some cases incorrect, and how do you challenge the system? it's hard to know. >> i think it's hard for parents exactly what you just said, to challenge authority. if somebody says to you, your child has this, we think they do, and you want the best for your kid, you go, okay, i'll do whatever i can. obviously in some cases kids do have adhd? >> they're basically hyperactivity. the inability to concentrate and conform. and sometimes acting out. over a prolonged period of time. not just for a couple of days or a couple of weeks. but a couple of things that parents can do. if you have a 5-year-old, consider maybe staying another year of preschool. don't rush the kindergarten and first grade. because if your child is having trouble, it is much easier from a social standpoint to hold that child back at that time

they go on to have bad adulthoods.re young girls in their teens choosing to get injected. they want to beat the written cals before they come or change the shape of the face. they say it relaxes part of your face. parents are probably paying for this, i can imagine. if your child's self-esteem needs fixing, that's not the doctor to see. see a shrink of community service person. someone other than the doctor. there's going to be something tomorrow. >> something else they are not happy with. it's not just children who need help. >> what are you talking about? >> we have been talking about this story for awhile. >> which one? >> here goes. >> now, a moment with mel. >> yep, lost control of his 2008 car. >> he was all by himself. he crashed the car. they say he was not -- he didn't have alcohol in his system according to the officers. >> no drugs. >> that was a moment with mel. >> that definitely was -- >> and that was a moment with mel. >> we like it. >> we like it. we just don't have all the kinks worked out. >> this was

3% to 5% of the population has this extreme version of distractability and hyperactivity and in adulthoodd your career. >> melissa, i mentioned you had a personal relationship. you were work iing with ned on research on adhd and suddenly it rang a bell with you. >> it did and we have a daughter who has adhd and that is another way you know because it's inheritable. we looked at it and said, wow, this is our marriage. these are our problems. >> and this was well into your marriage, right, like 15 years in? >> 15 years in. we had just a very dysfunctional relationship by that time and we looked at it and we said this fits. this is what it is. and it gave us a completely new way to look at what to do to fix it and turn it around which we did very successfully. >> you mentioned your daughter had it. we think of adhd in terms of kids not really in terms of adults. >> the great undiagnosed group are adults, particularly adult women, by the way. people think you get over it during childhood. well, often you don't. and so if you have a pattern of chronic under achievement as an adult, trouble wit