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No New Friends

... more challenging to form friendships in the first place.As Gen Ys forged a nontraditional path when they arrived at adulthood by engaging in an extended adolescence, delaying or foregoing marriage and children, and changing homes and jobs more frequently than their predecessors, friends became more important than ever (see Friends With Benefits). Young adults today aren’t necessarily creating their own families at an early age, and they often move away from their hometown, so they seek a support ...

Single Inclusive

... has skyrocketed to 60%. Persistently high divorce rates aside, the trend’s growth isn’t necessarily driven by a deliberate move away from marriage in long-term life plans; rather, more young adults are reimagining their life timelines (Off-Roading, Cassandra S/S 2013) and have come to discover the remarkable value of being unattached along the way. Single Gen Y women, in particular, have a unique perspective on their unprecedentedly autonomous state. Journalist Kate Bolick’s “All the Single ...

The Malevolution

... parents among them are furthering the plight for gender equality by making their children more aware of the gap that still exists and executing new tactics to close it (see Mind The Gap), and they want to ensure that they’re setting the right example for their children. They’re finding that defining their success in terms of money or muscles is as limiting to men as defining it by marriage and motherhood has been to women. Trendsetting men have been vocal advocates for the empowerment of women, and ...

Dual Intentions

... the process itself tempting to extend. Moreover, the promise of oxytocin (aka, the “happy hormone” or the “love hormone”), which new romantic relationships have been proven to produce to great effect, positions starting anew in the expansive Dating Game as highly appealing. Delayed marriage or life partnership is just one result of this prolonging of the courtship stage: as one 27-year-old woman from the U.S. told us, this exaggerated vision of veritable fish in the sea makes one feel ...

Pairing Off

... dating culture that’s more of a game (see Dual Intentions) than a love sherpa leading them to marriage. While there is hardly a stigma attached to meeting someone digitally, people are sometimes concerned that their relationships won’t be taken seriously if others learn they met in a forum better known for on-demand one-night stands than for true love. With all of their peers using the same services and apps to find dates, those who do find long-term relationships this way feel somewhat self ...

All In Good Time

... necessarily unappealing to them, there is a common understanding that it’s become a dated ideal. Because they are widely redefining the typical life path and assumption of adulthood, they don’t have a universal understanding of what it means to “have it all” because they realize it is different for each individual. For example, someone may still want the house and the marriage but not necessarily the 2.5 kids [see No Kid(ding)]. Additionally, they’ve come of age during an era defined by particularly ...

Inside Out

... other race as distinctly. Regardless of their own race or ethnicity, youth are just more inclusive of others, whether they simply don’t see their differences (as was the adorable case of the matching haircuts for young boys in Kentucky) or because they fundamentally believe in equality for all. Although the oldest Zs have just begun to enter adulthood, interracial marriage is also increasing, as more Americans than ever before are marrying someone of a different race. Diverse relationships ...

Off-Roading

... opportunities, like a buyer’s housing market, even when the opportunity in question falls out of the traditional order; to wit, a quarter of Gen Y couples are buying first homes together before getting married. And they’re not letting delayed marriage interrupt their plans to parent, either. Parenthood is of the utmost importance to this generation, and they are pursuing it, unfazed, in nontraditional fashion. Some 40 percent of births now occur out of wedlock, and the nuclear family increasingly seems like ...

Welcome To The Club

... sense of community through these traditional community spaces and, instead, look elsewhere to obtain it in real life through different means. Unlike their parents and grandparents, modern youth are nomadic and postponing or entirely foregoing marriage, having children, or homeownership. Young people’s decision to move to a new area is less driven by the connectedness a place provides to its residents and more motivated by the other opportunities it affords them (see Opportunity Knocks). Even young ...