In 1960, some seventy percent of thirty years olds were married, financially independent, and starting a family. In 2000, less than forty percent of thirty year olds had done so. Join Kojo as we explore that generational shift and what the social trend of "delaying adulthood" means for individuals and society.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2007-11-07/odyssey-years
The Odyssey Years
Listen Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. in Society
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Guests
Bill Galston
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; College Park Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Jeffrey Arnett
Professor of Psychology, Clark University; author of "Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties" (Oxford)
Diana West
syndicated columnist; contributor to CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight; and author of "The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization" (Basic)
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