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.
1 The femur, also known as the thigh bone, is the longest bone of the human skeleton located in between the hip bone and the knee. 2  This bone is one of the strongest bones in the human skeleton and functions in supporting the weight of the body and allowing motion of the lower extremity. 3  A femur bone is found in each leg.