In Event: 434 - Section on Children and Youth Roundtable Session (one-hour).

Section on Children and Youth / Section on Sociology of Children and Youth Roundtables (one-hour)

Laura M. Tach, Cornell University

Christina Panagakis, State University of New York-Buffalo

Reconsidering Adulthood: Relative Constructions of Adult Identity during the Transition to Adulthood - Christina Panagakis, State University of New York-Buffalo

Adolescent Occupational Aspirations: An Examination of Changes in Girls' and Boys' Career Goals - Sampson Lee Blair, State University of New York-Buffalo; Patricia Neff Claster, Edinboro University-Pennsylvania

Sexual Orientation, Runaway and Throwaway Experiences, and Health during the Transition to Adulthood - Jennifer Pearson, Wichita State University; Lindsey Wilkinson, Portland State University; Lisa E. Thrane, Wichita State University

Why do Teenagers Work? The Youth Labor Force in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries - Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Montclair State University