I don't agree with the old-people hate, though.pico_the_greatSeptember 1 2010, 11:55:00 UTC
Not even reading the whole article. I already know what it'll say.
There's something that caught my eye while I was skimming the first page, a little piece of FAIL that, if this pere in a paper magazine, make me drop it in the wastebin:
We’re in the thick of what one sociologist calls “the changing timetable for adulthood.” Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so. A Canadian study reported that a typical 30-year-old in 2001 had completed the same number of milestones as a 25-year-old in the early ’70s. There are so many problems with these set milestones that I can barely begin to name them, but here's a sampling
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There's something that caught my eye while I was skimming the first page, a little piece of FAIL that, if this pere in a paper magazine, make me drop it in the wastebin:
We’re in the thick of what one sociologist calls “the changing timetable for adulthood.” Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so. A Canadian study reported that a typical 30-year-old in 2001 had completed the same number of milestones as a 25-year-old in the early ’70s. There are so many problems with these set milestones that I can barely begin to name them, but here's a sampling ( ... )
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