The word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon words gerle
(also spelled girle or gurle), likely cognate with the Old Low German word gör (sometimes given as kerl).[2] The Anglo-
Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym in some sense.[3] Protected
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According to Erikson, the young adult stage involves the personal need for intimacy and
as a
sex. Failure to achieve this need results in isolation, which is avoided, and
result the young adult strives for
love and compassion.
The young adult learns that love and compassion may get him or her what he or she wants.
In modern societies, young adults in their late teens and early 20s encounter a number of
issues as they finish school and begin to hold full-time jobs and take on oth