Chapter 10 Young Adulthood

Chapter 10 is about young adulthood which is from 22 to 34. The part of the book that most interested me was the social dimension. There is a whole list of different things in social dimension: marriage, relationship, sexuality, children, being single, voluntary childlessness, miscarriages, work life, religion, gender roles, and etc. There was a sentence really stood out for me. “Marriage and the emergency of the family become one of the most significant life changes in young adulthood”. What about the adolescence who make families before adulthood? These are the young adults who are having the most hazards and risk. Which are being on welfare, divorce, drug use, alcoholism, etc. I think maybe they have more involvement in these hazards because they have all of these other responsibilities on their shoulders. I don’t believe all young adults who make families will fall into these hazards but I do know it is common amongst this group of people. How can these young adults figure out who they are if they are too busy taking care of another human being? This rode can be a hard one and I am speaking from experience. Sometimes these hazards are the easiest way to put on a band aid on all the responsibilities of becoming young parents/families. However that band aid will eventually fall off. From my experience as a fairly young parent I had to start all over. I am barely finding out who I am, at slower rate than I think is considered “normal”. A young parents rode is a hard and slow one to success but not impossible. Ashford, J. B., & LeCroy, C. W. (2013). Young Adulthood. In Human Behavior in the Social Environment (5th ed., p. 507). Belmont, CA: Jon-David Hague.