Richard Settersten
Autor de Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone
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Obras de Richard Settersten
Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone (2010) 56 copias
On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series… (2005) 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 71
- Popularidad
- #245,552
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 1
The authors suggest several factors that will positively influence young adulthood — strong relationships with parents, investing in the future including willingness to take on smart debt (ie, for education), selecting an appropriate path of education or vocational training, improving community colleges. They argue that “young people need institutions and supports that foster responsibility and hope, that help them set goals and build the skills they need as adults in a fast-moving and fast-changing world” (201), beyond just the family structure, and that “expecting young people to be adult by age eighteen or twetny-one, or even twenty-five, is no longer feasible, or even desirable” (201). Still, despite their ideas and valid points about emerging adulthood, I would suggest that creating stronger programs and supports even before the onset of legal adulthood — ie, in high school and earlier — rather than extension of adolescence would be more beneficial.… (más)