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Articles from 2008

 

Happy 10,000th day - let's party (February 23, 2008)

"10k Day" is the new coming-of-age marker for Gen Y. Spurning conventional rites such as turning 18 or 21, many 20-somethings are marking their passage into adulthood in personal and novel ways. read more

Child-Man in the promised land (Winter, 2008)

Not so long ago, the average mid-twentysomething had achieved most of adulthood's milestones-high school degree, financial independence, marriage, and children. These days, he lingers-happily-in a new hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. Decades in unfolding, this limbo may not seem like news to many, but in fact it is to the early twenty-first century what adolescence was to the early twentieth: a momentous sociological development of profound economic and cultural import. Some call this new period "emerging adulthood," others "extended adolescence"; David Brooks recently took a stab with the "Odyssey Years," a "decade of wandering." read more