What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com

“... the changing timetable for adulthood.”

Interesting article about how adulthood is arriving later and later by generation, and how that frustrates baby boomer parents who can't seem to get their kids into adulthood. By traditional measurements, a typical 30-year-old in 2001 was approximately as mature as a 25-year-old in the early 70s. The problem is that the traditional measurements no longer apply. Traditionally, one would measure a person's march to adulthood by his financial independence or his freedom from his parents. You can't use those benchmarks in a world with no jobs.

"We’re caught in a weird moment, unsure whether to allow young people to keep exploring and questioning or to cut them off and tell them just to find something, anything, to put food on the table and get on with their lives."