The Welcome to Adolescent Healthcare Letter: A Rite of Passage

Human societies have always marked the attainment of life's major milestones with rites of passage [ [1] van Gennep A. The rites of passage. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago2019 Crossref Google Scholar ]. These major milestones are universal across cultures and include birth, the transition to adulthood, and death [ [2] Janusz B. Walkiewicz M. The rites of passage framework as a matrix of transgression processes in the life course. J...