It seems more and more adults in their 20′s (a.k.a. 20 somethings) don’t want to grow up. Via the NYT:
The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least once. They go through an average of seven jobs in their 20s, more job changes than in any other stretch. Two-thirds spend at least some time living with a romantic partner without being married. And marriage occurs later than ever. The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation.
We’re in the thick of what one sociologist calls “the changing timetable for adulthood.” Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so. A Canadian study reported that a typical 30-year-old in 2001 had completed the same number of milestones as a 25-year-old in the early ’70s.
It’s like the 60′s all over again.
I think we are heading back to the era of large families where the kids stay until marriage.They can’t make it on their own.I have two examples at my house.
I can see this happening.
One other problem is today it takes two incomes to be able to afford to raise children.
Truthfully this is the fault of the liberal progressive ideology that coddles people from the cradle to the grave. Why grow up when good ole uncle Sam will wipe your butt for you until your in your 40′s. We are breeding a generation of losers who cannot even begin to take responsibility for themselves. By the time I was 18 I was already enlisted in the Army. By age 26 I was married and had two children (which I supported by actually working). At age 40 I own my home two cars and now have four children. I hope I have raised my children to understand the same principles that I have observed throughout my life. Work hard, play hard, pray hard and take responsibility for my actions (good or bad). If I was successful in that they will be successful in all that they attempt as well.
Great points!
I think the liberal ‘we are all winners’ mindset does not help either. Learning from mistakes, failures and losses make you stronger and sometimes are the most important lessons.