Fewer young adults are achieving economic and family milestones typically associated with adulthood, according to a recent working paper from the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the working paper, “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood,” almost half of all young adults in 1975 had reached four milestones associated with adulthood: moving out of one’s parents’ home, getting a job, getting married and having a child.
Five decades on, that progression has changed dramatically. The share of young adults that have followed the traditional pathway to adulthood has dropped to less than a quarter, according to the paper.
Gotta be thorough about it. Full body paralysis would be a suboptimal outcome.
Ideally I would have a wing suit and I would do a loop de loop into the side of a mountain. I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the time to reflect on good memories in my life and I want to go out living purely in the moment.
But as with all plans I’ve ever made it life, it most likely will not happen. I’ll go out in a completely unexpected and unplanned way. Probably in a ridiculous way too. Sadly it won’t be a story I’ll be able to share that time but that’s just how it goes.