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.
These new cells become part of the body's long bones. Growth plates play a large role during puberty, most noticeably when an adolescent goes through a growth spurt. By age 18 in females and 21 in males, a growth plate will have become an epiphyseal line.