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As we have seen, there is relative consensus on the importance of nine ways adults can engage with young people. Even within that consensus, however, there are divergent views about how important these ″consensus″ actions are. And once beyond that territory of relative consensus lies a more normatively fragmented American culture in which consensus on the importance of specific kinds of adult engagement fades and then disappears. In this chapter, we further discuss overall patterns of results for the actions that were not rated among the top nine in importance, and the gap between beliefs about those actions, and adults’ actual behavior. In Chapter 8, we look more comprehensively at differences in beliefs and actions among different demographic groups of Americans.
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Scales, P.C. (2003). Normative Fragmentation: The Disappearance of Consensus. In: Other People’s Kids. The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0147-3_8
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