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there are stories of people approaching adulthood who lose control of themselves and maybe physically attack someone. some of those people get sentenced to prison terms. we didn't talk about the odd phenomenon medicine is now investigating which parents have noticed for years that when children with autism develop fevers, their autism symptoms can become milder and so on. i could go on and on. there are many other stories to do. we thought we were doing the main urgent ones. >> people can go on to our site and see there's an overwhelming number of comments on there that are very supportive of the series. let me just read you a couple very quickly before i get to ones that are perhaps a little bit more pointed. one viewer said you need to this if you have children. jackie who is is a special needs professional says, wow, this could just as well have been my life. they touched so many important topics in such a period. that said let's get to a couple of concerns the people had about your personal connection with this series. here's one that was on our website here. he said i reject the

internship program has helped me to think about my goals and have helped me to focus on my transition to adulthood. i've written resume, cover letters and learned job readiness skills. i am glad big picture is helping me to pursue my interests in photography and allowing me to gain valuable life skills which i will take with me after i graduate high school. thank you. up next is kevin brooks. >> thank you and good evening. as hugo said, my name is kevin brooks and i'm the l.c.i. coordinator which stands for learning through internship coordinatorment and i'm also behavioral counselor with big picture san francisco p.c.c. one of my responsibilities is to be the liaison between our students and the internship sites and to facilitate successful transitions like the ones you've been listening to. our students come from very diverse backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. but all have one common thread. and that being an interest in something. our jobs as advisors, counselors, therapists andan administraters are to engage that interest for whatever drives each student's passion and turn it into a successful

women also spent years in pre adulthood. the single years of the '20s and '30s, but here is the difference. women have the advantage, miserable as it sometimes makes them, of knowing about biological limits. the large majority of women and men said they want children. that is what the surveys consistently say. for women his fertility begins to decline by the time they're 30, that means that they will not be able to play or work without serious distraction for very long. even those who are unsure whether they will have children know that the decision alone imposes boundaries on there. delta. men don't have these pressing limits. they can take their time, and they do. the second is a highly segmented and uncensored media environment. in the past can men have never paid much attention to television and magazines. the media and turn have trouble figuring out how to reach that young her male demographic. by the mid-90s they found each other and fell in love. we get maxim magazine, cable news network poor health with movies also d

it's like pruning branches, allowing the brain to strengthen the connections that will last until adulthooddr. giedd scans the teens every two years as they grow up and tests their distractibility. the surprising news? all this multitasking might be making their minds stronger and serves as a cross-training exercise for the brain. >> there does seem to be a plasticity for the younger adolescents that allows them to get better at multitasking to a point. >> reporter: and dr. giedd also sees this outside his lab. he's a parent of three teens himself. but he limits how much screen time his kids get. >> as a parent we all want to do the best for our children. how do we parent better? how do we live better? >> reporter: it's that balance, he says, that will help teens learn in this ever-changing world. >> the doctor's poor kids are under constant scrutiny. >> constant scrutiny. >> can you imagine? first of all, i find it believable that it's at some level probably good brain exercise. but do we know enough to do any long-term studies? >> well, that's exactly where they're going. in fact, dr. gie

child may have accumulated throughout their lifetime, by the time they get to teenaged or early adulthood is enough to result in a melanoma. >> so be on the lookout for changes in the skin that could be warning signs of cancer. that's how valerie's was detected. >> what we ask families to look for are moles or freckles that are changing in character over a very short period of time. they're growing, changing in colors, the borders or the edges are becoming very irregular. >> you also need to keep applying that sunscreen, even if your skin is naturally brown. if you love winter sports, keep in mind that the snow intensifies the sun's damaging rays. so, put on sunscreen when you're on the slopes, as well. and avoid tanning beds! teenagers who go to tanning beds definitely are thinking about right now, and not their future. valerie's future looks good because her melanoma was found early enough for effective treatment. and now she knows that even a suntan can be dangerous. >> i like the look of a sun tan, yeah, i try to get pretty dark myself. >> well, i have a sun tan now so if i said i did

. -- 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

. -- 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

members is if we've come to washington and said we're the adults we have to show the minimum level of adulthood and keep things open. so for the white house tonight, they're trying to get those both sides together and see if they can get some kind of an agreement. >> smith: john dickerson in washington tonight, thanks. turning now to libya. after three and a half weeks of allied airstrikes moammar qaddafi is looking for a way out. today he appealed directly to president obama to end the attacks. in a rambling letter qaddafi wrote: in response, secretary of state hillary clinton said qaddafi needs to withdraw his force from rebel-held cities, give up power and leave. meanwhile, former congressman curt weldon, a republican from pennsylvania, arrived in libya today for talks with qaddafi at his invitation. elizabeth palmer is in tripoli and has the latest on that. liz, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. yes, the former congressman is here on a private mission with a proposal that he says he hopes will lead to a cease-fire, and it starts with some blunt words for colonel qaddafi-- "it'

. -- 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.

without support in their transition to adulthood, think face tremendous challenges in employment, housing, education and more. one in five become homeless within 18 months of leaving the foster system. over half experience unemployment in that amount of time and less than half the youths that exit the foster care system have a high school diploma or g.e.d. when they leave and are on their own. last fiscal year, 182 youths aged out of the san francisco youth foster system and given the challenges they face it is critical to provide support so they can work toward their personal goes. we have seen across california that providing supportive, affordable housing can make a difference to transitional youth. last year for example youth that participated in similar programs across the state made substantial gains in educational achievement, income and housing stability. 63% of youth across the state who participated in supportive housing exited the programs with a high school diploma compared with only 57% when they entered and 43% were employed when they left the program. with housing and suppo

we have to meet the minimum standard of adulthood, which is keeping the government open. so don't get -- you know, their first test was to show responsibility as new leaders in washington. that was the way the republican leaders saw it. gwen: we're hearing now that some of the networks are report ing that they've come up with a short-term deal to keep the government running, but not necessarily to solve the long tirm problem, right? >> this may give them -- a short-term deal gives them time to approve the deal with requirements that it takes. this is merely, as john was saying, for the current fiscal year. they have to come back and look at the next fiscal year in fairly short order, and before that, they have to solve an even trickier problem with raising the debt limit and that's not at all addressing the long-term structural debt problem. so they have a laddered set of challenges. that's another reason, if they come to an agreement on friday night or on saturday, they're mindful that they have to turn around and make an agreement again. gwen: you know what's really a d

working towards an agreement which would provide better government oversight on the wellbeing of adulthood russian children in american families something that would mean regular visits to the families by social workers from both countries some say the biggest obstacle to an agreement is the overall secrecy surrounding adoptions in the u.s. in the united states of america wants an adoption is finalized that child is considered the same as just to hear dr aarons birth certificate gets reissued pushing the adoptive parents they never even have to tell the child that they were adopted but russia says americans privacy issues should not be an argument for leaving thousands of adopted children without any oversight and protection when you were understands that you cannot turns poor you in the vehicle for peterson across the border to result in a contract but small children will be taken by thousands without any ribbons in the u.s. people wanting to adopt pay private agencies or assessments as to their suitability as parents this of course raises questions as to how objective those assessments c

as they mature into adulthood, this investment grows exponentially, providing a vast, sustainable energy source for san francisco. the earlier we invest in a young person's life, the more likely they are to succeed. we challenger not to be shortsighted in your view about the long-term impact of budget cuts and their consequences. the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. investing in the now addresses current problems while giving them a tool needed to find solutions we have yet to realize. thank you. [applause] them and let's give it up for the -- >> let's give it up for the youth. i'm so proud of your presentation and seeing what a difference all the students make in the community. thank you for being up here and making your presentation to district 11, the mayor, and city staff. next up, jonathan is going to close it up. >> hello. my name is jonathan. i live here in district 11. i go to city arts and technology, which is also here in district 11. you have all just heard about all these issues that district 11 is basing and how historically, district 11 has then underfunded and u

that there's some kind of huge wave of children with autism and special needs that are coming into adulthood that we have never been able to deal with before and never had to confront. there are people who are adults now that we had to take care of and had to help and support. the major question is how will we support those kids in a better way than we supported those who came before them? please wait until the microphone gets there, thank you. >> when and how did autism get recognized as a specific entity? >> i will try to answer the question briefly about where the concept came from. the word autism is spread throughout psychological and psychiatric literature in the nineteenth century. it was a term that really referred to somebody being withdrawn and kind of unable to be highly social and it was thought to be a symptom of schizophrenia. throughout the 20th century into the 1950s and 60s autism was for all intents and purposes and subtly officially in terms of the terms of the american psychiatric association a symptom of schizophrenia. it wasn't a disorder in its own right. it was though

and walker percy was a good friend in his adulthood and they would correspond about it.uld, i think most writers have moments like this. there's a stray line in a letter, i killed lincoln off at noon today. he spent so many years with him. and then so he ved in th way. and i think that's, you know, the war was so complicated. there are many battles i didn't understand until i read foote. and there are, you know, i know a lot of people who will tell you that the sweep of the war which wasn't a to b to c, it was all over the place as you know. i didn't really understand. >> charlie: here is foote at this very table talking about abraham lincoln not his literary quality. here it is. >> it's always difficult to talk about a genius was so much of it can't beaccounted for. there's no question he's our greatest president. i have no doubt about that at all. >> charlie: because this. >> his skill at political maneuver, they alws talk about slick willie amused me. slick willie reported going to school is one of the slickest that ever lived. >> charlie: slickest in what way. >> he

at t adolescence and early adulthood is lit with a certain light that is never replicated at anothert time. >> i do think, too, that thereee was, in those years, sond it's dangerous to generalize becausee there were so many different ways to experience that era, buf the voices of young people were regarded as s o much more important than they are now. young people, at least tell l speak for myself.speak my i had a sense that someone wasse interested in knowing what i i felt. i witnessed the fact that the new york times wanted me to wa m irite about my life.l nhe summer after that i was ono the panel at the democraticocrac national convention talking about the onyoualth vote. amazing. i was listened to.tened i don't think that young people -- i'm thinking of my on threeh adult children, have the same sense of being a part of the as cess. i know that i did. >> yes, mark.rk. >> i'm constantly kicking mysell because i missed the punk movement. af at the 7i actually think punk ii culturally probably more important than most of us in this room realized. i noticed that the young th anarchist

grew up with is what she calls concerted cultivation where kids are driven around and prepared for adulthood. the other is what she -- i forget the name, but life is hard. let the kids relax. in some sense this is a more sane and healthy way to raise kids, but it does not prepare them as well for the world we now have as adults. we have to, frankly, acknowledged that. at the most disorganized homes we have kids who are not getting those attachments. we have to have schools, and i am a big supporter of the academies. some of the no excuse schools where you go in and they teach the kids how to walk down the hallway, how to look at the eye and not when someone is looking. how to say yes, excuse me, thank you, smile. in the morning they have drums and chance. teachers chance. the kids have ted chant back. they learn discipline and order and director and a lot of the stuff that, frankly, middle-class kids it naturally. i think they work phenomenally well because they are explicitly based on this marshmallow type experiment and say we will give those kids those type of social skills. you must tech

when i grow up in ratner is considered cultivation were kids are driven around and prepared for adulthood the other is what she -- i forgot the name, but life is hard. but the kids relax. in some sense this is the more sane and healthy weight to raise kids, but doesn't prepare kids for we now have as adults. and so we've got to frankly acknowledge that. the most disorganized homes, we have kids who are just not getting disorganized attachment and we have to have schools a night at a supporter or you go into the school and they teach kids how to want in the hallway. they teach them how to look at the eye and not when someone is talking to them. they teach them not to say yes, excuse me, thank you, smile. they have these drowned in the teachers chant out what is fair and. they learn discipline and order and a lot of the stuff that frankly middle-class kids naturally. and i think they work phenomenally well because they are explicitly based on this marshmallow tape experiment if they were going to give those kids those kinds of social skills. you have to acknowledge we have an unequal societ

versus pre adulthood. the decade or more of sigell life devoted to work and self exploration. women also center this in the years of the '20s and '30s. here's the difference. women have the advantage miserable as a sometimes makes them of about biological limits. a large majority of women and men said they want children. that is what the surveys consistently say. but for women whose fertility begins to decline by the time they're 30, that means that they will not be able to plague or work without serious distraction for very long. even those who are unsure whether they will have children know that the decision alone imposes boundaries on their pre adult it. men don't have these pressing limits. they can take their time, and they do. the second force is a highly segmented and uncensored media

alive because a renown care center continues to help hundreds of orangutan orphans survive into adulthood as infants. like our own kids, they need lots of love and attention. we stimulate the different stages of orangutan development with humans acting as surrogate mothers. >> reporter: and when they turn eight or nine years old, the age of independence from mothers, she sets them free. into the wild. the ever diminishing wild. >> osgood: next, a dog's tale from writer dean koontz. and later.... >> i can flap my wings. >> osgood: is that isabella rossellini? ♪ [ male announcer ] people everywhere are helping save trees in just 4 weeks without even noticing. as the world's first line of hybrid paper products, scott naturals combines the green benefits of recycled fiber with the quality you need -- so only our forests will notice the difference. [ male announcer ] take the scott naturals 4-week test drive. if we all did it we'd save over 2 million trees. start your test drive at scottbrand.com. plus the choice of every etf, 5-star service, and unmatched trading tools. there's price. there's

what i withdrew up with is what she calls concerted preparation for adulthood. the other is, basically, the attitude is life is hard, let the kids relax while they're kids. in some sense this is a more sane and healthy way to raise kids, but it doesn't prepare the kids as well for the world we now have as adults. so we've got to, frankly, acknowledge that. and then at the most disorganized homes we have kids who are just not getting those organized attachments. and we have to have schools, and i'm a big supporter of these kip academies which are around, some of these no-excuses schools where you go into the school, and they teach the kids how to walk down the hallway, how to look at the eye and nod when somebody's talking to them, they teach them how to say yes, excuse me, thank you, to smile. and in the morning they have these drums and channels, and the teachers chant out what is earned, and the kids have to chant back, everything is earned. so they learn discipline and order and rigor, a lot of this stuff that middle class kids get naturally, these schools ha

young adulthood. they can pop up in the adult years, as well. seasonal allergies and the medical term is allergic rhinitis, your risk is therefore higher. >> what about some allergy triggers out there? >> listen, when you think about our environment, it's really anything that you might be able to see or in some cases can't see. so you're talking about tree pollen, grass, weeds, dust, pet dander, mold. anything, really, that can be circulating in the air or in particulate matter can trig your these allergic symptoms. >> as far as getting them under control, i know it's probably easier said than done. but there are a number of different ways people can go about this. >> there are. when i talk to my patients, it's shocking how many people are not treating them well, and not optimizing their treatment. basically you want to start by getting control of these symptoms early. it's much easier to treat the allergy problem before they're full-blown attacks. then you can go to over-the-counter treatment, nasal sprays, decongestants or pills. but you need

and at different stages you have childhood stages, adolescents and then you have adulthood.ervices and things for the time. so the challenge is to try to be effective at overseeing this whole area without getting so entangled in one, we can't help the other, that it's a real challenge. adults have different issues. but the fact is, if we can get real good research, medical research, and we can translate it into drugs and therapies and things of that nature, we can have enormous impact. what helps a child helps an adult and vice versa. so it just has to get done that way. we see this with parkinson's. we see it with alzheimer's and others. we're all trying to fight that issue. >> and we had a big victory yesterday, we won our 25th state for our insurance reform bill. >> congratulations. >> now we have 25 to go and the federal government. >> can you imagine that? >> these people didn't have any insurance. >> we asked all our guests on this segment, who would you like to have coffee with? >> i'd like to have hot chocolate. >> i'd like to have something with president obama beca

let me say a couple of things about my childhood and adulthood as one of the signs of an and david brodera political activist, and a political reporter. are you surprised if i tell you i majored in political science at the university of wisconsin? my apologies to those who have heard the story. i remember an evening in 1968. the family dinner was going on, watching the black-and-white tv as president johnson talked about vietnam. as the president spoke, my father realized with the speech was going. he jumped up and shouted, "he is not going to run." then he bolted for the door. [laughter] moments later the telephone rang. my mother answered. she assured the person at the post but he was already on his way and on up. [laughter] in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade i had a paper route. family connections had nothing to do with it. [laughter] this was before he won the pulitzer. my friends already had routes and when another route became available, i took it. h. truitt father, up one morning i was so upset, i cannot deliver my papers. he rose to the occasion. following an address list, he

let me say a couple things about my childhood and adulthood as one of the sons of ann and david brodertical activist and political reporter. are you surprised if i tell you i majored in police science at the university of wisconsin? my apologies to those that have heard the story. i remember the sunday evening of 1968, family dinner going on, watching the black-and-white tv as president johnson talked about vietnam. as the president spoke, like father realized where the speech was going. he jumped up and shouted he's not going to run and bolted for the door. [laughter] moments later the phone rang and my mom answered and she assured the person don't worry, he's already on the week. [laughter] and she hung up. in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade i had a paper route, yes, the morning paper, "the washington post." family connection had nothing to do with it. this was before he won the pulitzer. my friend, steve bauer and talf went already had routes and when another became available, i to get. a true father, one morning i was so sick i couldn't deliver my papers and he rose to the occa

your dna, something that you take with you from the time you are a youth all the way through your adulthood decisions. how do we make this -- connect all of these pieces together? >> which is a great insight. make it mean something to us. >> can i jump in here? john and rosie touched on the fact that is important for citizens to understand what is going on. we become better parts of our democratic process when we can hold others accountable. when you go to work and you earn a paycheck, it is also important. part of financial literacy is understanding what the pay check is delivering to you. is is -- is it a wage for the hours you worked, does it include benefits, does it include contributions for retirement? if it does not, your total compensation, if you thought it was supposed to help you toward retirement, you have to do that on your own. there are some jobs where they offer you something, but there may be less benefits. you have to understand the different options and understand your compensation pick it is critical. it is difficult to think about being tired -- or compensation. it is c