The NY Times magazine has a new article about how 20 somethings these days are way behind previous generations in becoming an "adult":
It’s happening all over, in all sorts of families, not just young people moving back home but also young people taking longer to reach adulthood overall. It’s a development that predates the current economic doldrums, and no one knows yet what the impact will be — on the prospects of the young men and women; on the parents on whom so many of them depend; on society, built on the expectation of an orderly progression in which kids finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and eventually retire to live on pensions supported by the next crop of kids who finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and on and on. The traditional cycle seems to have gone off course, as young people remain untethered to romantic partners or to permanent homes, going back to school for lack of better options, traveling, avoiding commitments, competing ferociously for unpaid internships or temporary (and often grueling) Teach for America jobs, forestalling the beginning of adult life.
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i'm on board. 30's is the new 20's is what i keep telling myself. i think some of the reason for this is that most of our parents were part of the baby boomer generation that became adults early in their 20's and we see how little opportunity they had to really experience the rest of the world because they were locked in to their jobs and families. many can piggy back off of their parents financial stability which wasn't the case for our own parents. who really knows though, maybe it's just video game/cable tv induced laziness. read the article for some more professional explanations.
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that picture is going to haunt me everywhere
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