A lot of different factors affect a person's political socialization. Personal factors, such as your family, social and economic classes, education and peer groups, all influence your political values. More general items, like the mass media and key world events, also affect your political values.
Growth plates are located at the ends of long bones such as the femur. It is the area from which growth occurs in the bone and is the last area of the bone to fully harden and turn from cartilage into bone.
The growth plate (physis) is the area of developing tissue near the end of the long bones in children. Each long bone has at least one growth plates at each end. When growth is complete during adolescence, the growth plates are replaced by solid bone. These growth plate injuries occur in children and adolescents.