Editing Sleepover

{{Short description|Party where guest(s) stay overnight at a friend's home}}
{{redirect|Slumber party|other uses|Sleepover (disambiguation)|and|Slumber Party (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Photograph of teenage girls at a sleepover, Gainesville, Georgia, 1952 - DPLA - 292005a89e2b84eeb69678b977499ca2h015.jpeg|thumb|Teenage girls at a sleepover, Gainesville, Georgia, 1952]]
A '''sleepover''' (also known as a '''slumber party''' or '''pajama party''') is a social occasion in which a young person stays at the home of a friend. Multiple people and/or friends may sleepover at the friend's home. Typically a younger person will partake in a sleepover; however, an adult or older person may sleep at a friend's home.

== Characteristics ==
A sleepover is an event when a child, without adult presence, spends the night in the presence of other children. The sleepover is often seen as a [[rite of passage]] for a young child or teenager, as they begin to assert independence and to develop social connections outside the immediate family.<ref>Judith Ancer, [http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/2012/06/10/sleepovers-need-not-be-a-nightmare---and-help-kids-to-be-autonomous-in-a-safe-environment "Sleepovers need not be a nightmare - and help kids to be autonomous in a safe environment"], ''[[The Sunday Times (South Africa)|The Sunday Times]]''  (South Africa), June 10, 2012.</ref><ref>Edward Eveld, [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2005/08/14/sleepovers-a-rite-of-passage-for-kids/ "Sleepovers a rite of passage for kids"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', August 14, 2005.</ref><ref>Barbara F. Meltz, ["The sleep-over: A rite of passage"], ''[[Boston Globe]]'', October 13, 1994.</ref>
== Teen sleepovers ==
Beginning in the 1990s, commentators wrote about a perceived new trend of parents endorsing sleepovers for teenagers, with both boys and girls staying overnight together. While some writers decried the trend, others defended it as a safer alternative to teenage dating outside the house.<ref>Peter Annin, [https://www.newsweek.com/slumbering-around-176118 "Slumbering Around"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', November 4, 1996.</ref><ref>Emily Wax, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/11/16/coed-all-nighters-put-trust-on-line/72709f12-37c5-42a9-84be-d1012b359c49/ "Coed All-Nighters Put Trust on Line; Not All Parents Are Losing Sleep Over Teen Fad"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', November 16, 2000 {{subscription required}}, reprinted as [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AIEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bn8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5423,896121&dq=sleepover+teen+trend&hl=en "Coed all-nighters cause unrest"], ''[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]]'', November 21, 2000.</ref><ref>[[Betsy Hart]], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5wsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FpgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4927,3016867&dq=sleepover+co-ed&hl=en "Coed sleepovers: Teenagers learn volumes from parents' decision-making"], [[Scripps Howard News Service]] in ''[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|The Daily News]]'' (Kentucky), November 24, 2000.</ref><ref>[[Amy Dickinson]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207132157/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998922,00.html "Coed Sleepovers"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 8, 2001.</ref>

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