The 20s are a black box, and there is a lot of churning in there. One-third of people in their 20s move to a new residence every year. Forty percent move back home with their parents at least once. They go through an average of seven jobs in their 20s, more job changes than in any other stretch. Two-thirds spend at least some time living with a romantic partner without being married. And marriage occurs later than ever. The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men; by 2009 it had climbed to 26 for women and 28 for men, five years in a little more than a generation.
This article is dead on. In fact I have already hit three out of four of these statistics (with the exception of the 7 jobs thing but hey I still have 5 years left) and will probably not be married until at least 26.
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A really interesting read.
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“Just as adolescence has its particular psychological profile, Arnett says, so does emerging adulthood: identity...
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“The 20s are a black box, and there...churning in there. One-third
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pop-enomics reblogged this from arax and added:
is dead on. In fact...have already hit three out of four of these statistics (with
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