Posted on 09/22/2014 4:52:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
ONE of the most notable demographic trends of the last two decades has been the delayed entry of young people into adulthood. According to a large-scale national study conducted since the late 1970s, it has taken longer for each successive generation to finish school, establish financial independence, marry and have children. Today’s 25-year-olds, compared with their parents’ generation at the same age, are twice as likely to still be students, only half as likely to be married and 50 percent more likely to be receiving financial assistance from their parents.
People tend to react to this trend in one of two ways, either castigating today’s young people for their idleness or acknowledging delayed adulthood as a rational, if regrettable, response to a variety of social changes, like poor job prospects. Either way, postponing the settled, responsible patterns of adulthood is seen as a bad thing.
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I’m still waiting for most journalists in the MSM to grow up. Socialism doesn’t work, move on.
If not just your phone but your tv, your music, your friends and your work communications all came to you via that gadget from Apple, you might just be a little more fascinated with it yourself. They’re not all slackers and deadbeats, really not much worse than generations preceding. Employment prospects for recent college grads are still awful. Have a little empathy. What are they supposed to be doing, scrubbing the floors? Those jobs have been taken away by non citizens. So have just about all the sorts of jobs teenagers would usually have done in your recollection.
I can't say that maybe the kids tried it. But I know none of my friends would willingly allow that. I am picky about my friends. I tend to run with the church crowd. I am glad I am sheltered.
Why? Doesn’t seem as if we see that elsewhere in nature.
Getting to be more like Europe every year. Leftism is winning.
I worked that job the entire summer that year, and knew by the end of it I never wanted to work that hard ever again and became determined to do whatever it took to be successful enough to not have to and instead use my brain to earn money.
Sometimes you NEED that job scrubbing floors to teach you a valuable lesson.
Consumerism
The behavior is usually accompanied by the phase... well... I would rather them do it here where they are safe. These same parents put their little girls on birth control as soon as they have their first period.
It’s not even that clear-cut. When it’s a matter of responsibility, the left sets the agenda that “they’re just kids”. When it’s a matter of abortion, sex, etc, the left sets the agenda that they’re old enough to decide without parental “interference” (though the local leftist makes sure to insert their agenda, propaganda, what-have-you into the process).
Such as trying vicious murderers as “children”, even when they’re 17 and outweigh most adults, and helping them seek abortions without telling their parents, but punishing them if they bring an aspirin to school.
The left doesn’t care about being consistent, logical, or using common sense, they do whatever pushes their agenda, even when what they support one day completely contradicts what they supported the day before.
Chastity belts for both male & female until 6 months after they assume and fulfill the responsibilities of adulthood would go a LONG way toward encouraging young people to grow up.
“Why buy the cow (adult responsibility) when the milk (sex, room & board, maybe a little spending money, tuition, etc) is free!”
More MSM propaganda promoting the virtues of the New Normal.
I know you were sort of joking, but actually that is basically how things used to be for the most part and is in my opinion what drove young people to WANT to grow up and get out of the house at an early age.
A girl didn't want anything to do with a man who wasn't capable of supporting her. A man wouldn't even have thought of asking a girl (even one who loved him back dearly) to marry him unless he was established in a career and capable of taking care of them both and the children to come.
You would expect that from the NY Slimes.
few things have changed the world more profoundly than birth control.
I don’t thing the problem is biological... I think it’s economic, and also social. Parents aren’t forcing their children to grow up, and the economy makes it difficult for them to achieve independence early.
I agree with everything you said....
Would love to comment, but I do not understand your question. Please clarify when you get a minute.
yep yep - lot of ingredients in this recipe - and I think biology, or at least physiology is part of it - but what you pointed out is clearly a major factor.
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