Interesting article that makes me wonder if I really am apart of this “emerging adulthood” stage. Cause let’s face I am exactly the demographic they are talking about and have gone/going through similar experiences. It’s a 10 page article but definitely an interesting read.

What Is It About 20-Somethings?
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: August 18, 2010
New York Times Online

Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?

This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to launch” and “boomerang kids.” Two new sitcoms feature grown children moving back in with their parents — “$#*! My Dad Says,” starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-something son can’t make it on his own as a blogger, and “Big Lake,” in which a financial whiz kid loses his Wall Street job and moves back home to rural Pennsylvania. A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?

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