Wildhood

Wildhood is a groundbreaking exploration of adolescence and young adulthood across the animal kingdom. Authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers reveal the four universal challenges faced by every adolescent human and animal: safety, status, sex, and self-reliance. They illustrate these challenges through the lives of four wild animals, offering a captivating and enlightening portrait of adolescent behavior. Wildhood upends our understanding of everything from risk-taking and anxiety to the origins of privilege and the nature of sexual coercion and consent, making it a profound and necessary guide to the journey to adulthood on planet earth.