List of contributors; 1. Trajectories and turning points over the life course: concepts and themes Blair Wheaton and Ian H. Gotlib; Part I. Trajectories: Long-Term Effects of Adverse Experience: 2. Childhood adversity and adult psychopathology Ronald C. Kessler, Jacquelyn Gillis-Light, William J. Magee, Kenneth S. Kendler and Lindon J. Eaves; 3. The impact of twenty childhood and adult traumatic stressors on the risk of psychiatric disorder Blair Wheaton, Patricia Roszell and Kimberlee Hall; 4. Intergenerational sanction sequences and trajectories of street-crime amplification John Hagan and Bill McCarthy; 5. School-leavers' self-esteem and unemployment: turning point or a station on a trajectory? David Dooley and JoAnn Prause; 6. Intergenerational consequences of social stressors: effects of occupational and family conditions on young mothers and their children Elizabeth G. Menaghan; 7. Women's roles and resilience: trajectories of advantage or turning points? Phyllis Moen; Part II. Turning Points: Changes in Life Trajectories: 8. Becoming unsupervised: children's transitions from adult-care to self-care in the afterschool hours Deborah Belle, Sara Norell and Anthony Lewis; 9. Children whose parents divorce: life trajectories and turning points Donald Wertlieb; 10. Life after high school: development, stress and well-being Susan Gore, Robert Aseltine, Jr, Mary Ellen Colten and Bin Lin; 11. Turning points in midlife Elaine Wethington, Hope Cooper and Carolyn S. Holmes; 12. Adaptation to retirement Robert S. Weiss; Part III. New Methods for the Study of the Life Course: 13. Construction and use of the life history calendar: reliability and validity of recall data Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel and Wan-foon Gina Lai; 14. Using discrete-time survival analysis to study event occurrence across the life course John B. Willett and Judith D. Singer; Index.