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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6235976" data-attributes="member: 8835">I don't disagree with Sabrina's original statement.it does SEEM as if young adults (18+) are less mature/ready to take on the world.But I accept that's just a perception.  For me, it's based on watching my younger friends flail about, trying to make their way in the world.Shows like Jersey Shore (that I've never seen) reinforce that sense that young adults really got no sense of getting to it.And the economy is likely part of the problem, if there are a larger # of unready young adults.In spain, young adults are unemployed in larger numbers than in the past, and they are stuck.Here in America, jobs are also scarce (though probably more available in spain).The number of young people living at home, or worse having to move back in because of job loss is generally acknowledged as being higher (I hear articles about the economy and this point on NPR all the time).So let's tie these 2 factors together.How would you feel (and thus behave), as a young adult if you were stuck at home still (or had to move back)?How would you percieve the greater number of young adults who are still living at home?I'm inclined to think many of them wouldn't feel like they grew up. And with nothing to do (sending out resumes is not a full time job), goofing off is probably the next thing on the list.I'm inclined to think that most of us aren't able to mentally connect the dots that people who don't have jobs are in the situation because the economy sucks right now.  Hence, why lots of people will blame the victim and assume they are lazy or something is wrong with them.I have no doubt, some of them are lazy (perhaps wooed by the apparent charmed life of their ambititious but equally stuck peers).  But there's probably more people who are just plain stuck right now, and perhaps their lifestyle is making us think they are more aimless than they really are.</blockquote>

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