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.
About Growth Plates. All long bones have an area called the epiphysis, which is the rounded end of the bone. The long, middle part (or shaft) of the bone is the diaphysis; the area where the bone gets wider at its end is the metaphysis. In growing kids, growth plates sit between the metaphysis and the epiphysis. Growth plates are at the end of long bones, and grow in length. They're made up of cartilage, a rubbery, flexible material (the nose, for instance, is made of cartilage).