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Constructing Adulthood in Contemporary Societies
Type: Text
Year: 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016
Member of: FAU Undergraduate Student Research
Contributors: Branaman, Ann, Ostroot, Ashley
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Description: In America and other industrialized countries there
has been a delay in attainment of traditional markers
of adulthood (i.e. marriage, parenthood, completion
of education, and full-time employment). Young people
are becoming “adults” much later than previous
generations, and their ideas of what it means to be
an adult are shifting. Some have claimed that a new
period of life called “… more
Full Text: Constructing Adulthood in Contemporary Societies Ashley Ostroot and Dr. Ann Branaman College of Arts and Letters of Florida Atlantic University Abstract In America and other industrialized countries there has been a delay in attainment of traditional …