{"id":2328,"date":"2010-08-24T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2010-08-23T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T02:55:04","slug":"another-unquantified-undocumented-thumbnail-history-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Another unquantified, undocumented thumbnail history of youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>Even if some traditional milestones are never reached, one thing is clear: Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/22\/magazine\/22Adulthood-t.html?ref=general&amp;src=me&amp;pagewanted=all\">What Is It About 20-Somethings? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, while writing a long article about this supposedly new &quot;emerging adulthood&quot; stage of life, freelance science reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinhenig.com\/\">Robin Marantz Henig<\/a> fails to provide any solid evidence beyond a few anecdotes and interviews with a single researcher, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Henig discusses G. Stanley Hall and his 1903 work <em>Adolescence<\/em> as a sort of intellectual history, to note that Arnett isn&#39;t the first to try to assert a new stage of life. She does so without noting the irony: Hall&#39;s adolescent age included a substantial part of Arnett&#39;s emerging adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Henig&#39;s a talented writer, and I wish she had done more to discuss what evidence exists as opposed to the conclusory quotations she draws from Arnett and a friendly skeptic, Richard Lerner.<\/p>\n<p>But wait: for those five transitions Henig mentions (finishing school, moving away, getting a job, pair-bonding, having kids), there should be a way to test Henig&#39;s claim. Unfortunately, like so many others, she sets her benchmark in the immediate post-WW2 years, when early marriage and low childlessness helped define the Baby Boom. I wish I had time to spend this week checking the central tendency measures for those transitions. But I suspect the picture is more complicated than Henig (or Arnett) asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, my older child is going through one of those transitions this week, as she starts college in Pennsylvania. I read articles like Henig&#39;s, or ones about helicopter parents, and shake my head. My daughter is more than ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if some traditional milestones are never reached, one thing is clear: Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever. via What Is It About 20-Somethings? &#8211; NYTimes.com And then, while writing a long article about this supposedly new &quot;emerging adulthood&quot; stage of life, freelance science reporter Robin Marantz Henig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-By","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}