{"id":369,"date":"2003-12-22T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/12\/22\/losers-of-the-world-united\/"},"modified":"2003-12-22T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T17:08:36","slug":"losers-of-the-world-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/12\/22\/losers-of-the-world-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Losers of the World United"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Navarro[, who is 30] lives with his parents in Queens. His mother packs lunch for him a few times a week. His bedroom still has his high school baseball trophies and a giant stuffed bunny that was a present from a former girlfriend. On
\nweekends, he plays touch football and goes drinking and clubbing with his
\ntwo best friends – both about his age, fully employed and living with their
\nparents, too.<\/p>\n

“When I was in college, I thought I’d be married by 24 and have a house and
\nkids by 30,” Mr. Navarro said. “Now I think the idea of being an emotionally
\ndeveloped male by 24 is ridiculous. I want to get married and have kids
\nsomeday. But I don’t feel any pressure that it has to be soon.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Navarro is no loser: he is funny, good-looking, charming – and typical
\nof his generation’s slowed-down approach to adulthood. To some extent, the
\ndata tells the story. Nearly all the traditional markers of adulthood,
\nincluding marrying, getting a college degree and moving out of the family
\nhome, are occurring later than they did a generation ago.<\/p>\n

The shape of life for those between 18 and 34 has changed so profoundly that
\nmany social scientists now think of those years as a new life stage,
\n“transitional adulthood” – just as, a century ago, they recognized
\nadolescence as a life stage separating childhood from adulthood.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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