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How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important

The Sample Case of Long-term Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use

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Handbook of the Life Course

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No story is a straight line. The geometry of human life is too imperfect and too complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. (Pat Conroy, 1995, p. 104)

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Schulenberg, J.E., Maggs, J.L., O’Malley, P.M. (2003). How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important. In: Mortimer, J.T., Shanahan, M.J. (eds) Handbook of the Life Course. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48247-2_19

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