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Featured Article: What is it About 20-Somethings?
New York Times, Robin Marantz Henig, 8/18/2010
This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns
about “failure to
launch” and “boomerang kids.”
Featured Article: Don’t Insult Kids by Comparing Trump to Them
New York Times, Jeffrey Arnett, 5/18/2017
Can we all please stop using “child” and “adolescent” as epithets? David
Brooks laid out the ways that
President Trump is still a child, and therefore deficient.
“… Psychologists are divided. Some say the evidence that the young have become ‘Generation Me’ is overwhelming..."
“… 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds are different from 13- and 14-year-olds. They may not be mature adults, but they’re no longer adolescents, either. They’re something in between."
A 2014 poll of young adults from researchers at Clark University in Massachusetts found that young adults today stay in frequent contact with their parents.
Experts say today’s teenagers are waiting to get a driver’s license, start drinking, and engage in sex. Why are they reluctant to enter adulthood?
“...evidence overwhelmingly shows that the self-esteem and self-belief of today’s emerging adults is not “too high” by any reasonable reckoning."
“According to researcher and popular author, Dr. Jean Twenge, the answer is, ‘Yes!’ … Many others, such as Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, have raised questions regarding her methodology..."
“… Young people are delaying adulthood in all aspects of life: education, moving out, marriage, kids, and career. According to the Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults..."
‘'Parents really do grieve, but there is also an upside to your kids moving into this new stage of life, a real sense of freedom for the parents’"
“… College students in general have been mocked of late for immature and occasionally violent attacks on free speech — although critics should be careful about slandering a generation for a few incidents."
Psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett argues for the recognition of a new stage of psychological development, which he calls ‘emerging adulthood.’”
The Science of Us, 4/14/17
‘In the earlier part of your 20s, ‘you’re forming a definite identity — a lot of identity play, a lot of trying out different versions of yourself to see who you really are...'
International Business Times, 4/11/17
There are a number of possible reasons why Millennials are not buying homes. … ‘Millennials are a generation of what I call ‘adventure movers.’
Valley News, 4/10/17
‘Will The Millennials Ever Grow Up?’ ‘I’m happy to tell you the answer is yes,” began Arnett. ‘People were asking the same question 25 years ago about Generation X and they did grow up..."
More young adults live in their parents’ homes today than in 1940. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 34 percent of the nation’s millennials live in their childhood bedrooms...
Deseret News, 4/3/2017
… A group of college students planning a service trip may not rank high among young adult accomplishments, but this is a generation where for the first time in the modern era...
… A new book, The Millennial Mindset, aims to help us make sense of this generation and where it’s headed.
True Viral News, 3/29/2017
"It’s incredibly unfair to call Millennials narcissistic, or to say
they’re more so than previous generations,’ says Jeffrey Jensen Arnett.
...The Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults found that the top three markers for adulthood in this generation are...
Student loan debt is not the primary reason children "boomerang."
Arnett believes children move home for a variety of reasons.
Madison Magazine, Andrea Behling, 1/19/17
‘I’ve been intentional about not saying my specific age,’ [Winnie K.] says. ‘You get rid of the preconceived notions.’ Her age puts her on the younger end of the generational spectrum known...
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