Fewer young adults are achieving economic and family milestones typically associated with adulthood, according to a recent working paper from the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the working paper, “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood,” almost half of all young adults in 1975 had reached four milestones associated with adulthood: moving out of one’s parents’ home, getting a job, getting married and having a child.
Five decades on, that progression has changed dramatically. The share of young adults that have followed the traditional pathway to adulthood has dropped to less than a quarter, according to the paper.
Man, all these people in the thread commenting that having kids isn’t a milestone of being an adult. It’s like they can’t fathom that it’s a general milestone, just because they’ve noped out of it.
Like if you said one of the goals of a career is retirement, and then some trust fund fucktard showed up and said “No! Because I work but I could’ve retired decades ago!”. Like stfu, it’s still a general goal for most people – just because you’re too stupid to put it together that they’re not talking about your specific niche situation, doesn’t change the general validity of the message.
Personally I don’t feel that goals and milestones are the same thing.
Agreed. Goal = something that I want to accomplish. Milestone = something that others (e.g. “society”) measure as an accomplishment.
Becoming a parent may be a milestone, but it most definitely isn’t one of my goals.