"More kids now are being educated in regular mainstream classes with their age mates and not in special schools for the deaf anymore," she said.

When an adolescent has advanced cognitive development and maturity they tend to resolve identity issues more so than age mates that are less cognitively developed.

They feel as if they no longer fit in with their age mates; yet, they are not emotionally ready to act like the older adolescents who look like them.

The youngest Karal stared at the pale Csurik brother, his age mate, and whispered importantly, "You, Dono!

Some of her age mates have had babies; they'll all get together and share experiences, and before you know it, she'll be a dignified matron.

I'll bet in your teens your age mates found you an intolerable, stiff-necked nonconformist.

It was of a bright-looking Chinese girl among obviously mentally challenged age mates.

She was introduced to Latie's age mates, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of her.

The priest saw himself as an age mate of the youth, and better yet, as a leader of the pack.

First, it was done in the house of an age mate or distant relation of the groom to whose house the groom took his wife for that purpose.