A collection of 50 writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood. The contributions include personal experiences, practical information about professional work, anthropological descriptions, mythic stories, and comments on social problems such as teenage pregnancy.

Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of fifty cutting-edge articles on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood, covering experiences with contemporary rites of passage, the use of rites of passage to resolve the 'youth crisis' of gangs and violence, accounts of traditional rites of passage, and how-to guidelines for creating new rites of passage that may help to save our communities from despair and destruction.