5. Richard Settersten, Jr., “Passages to Adulthood: Linking Demographic Change and Human Development,” European Journal of Population 23, nos. 3–4 (2007), pp. 251–272. We have not in this book taken up an examination of the particular personal meanings or markers that young people use to define the term “adult.” This is the subject of other research using MacArthur interviews. It is also the focal point of a growing body of research in psychology led by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and his colleagues on adolescence and “emerging adulthood.” See, for example, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2006). For readers interested in understanding how young people build their identities, we also recommend the work of James Côté, Arrested Adulthood: The Changing Nature of Maturity and Identity (New York: NYU Press, 2000).
6. See an interview with Michael Kimmel at www.guyland.net/interviews.htm.
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, “The College of 2020: Students.” Executive Summary. See: http://research.chronicle.com/asset/
TheCollegeof2020ExecutiveSummary.pdf.
8. For further discussion of how to build stronger partnerships between schools and employers, see Settersten, “Social Policy and the Transition to Adulthood.”
9. Interested readers will find many good examples on the websites of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (www.civicyouth.org), and the Corporation for National and Community Service (www.nationalservice.org), with which members of the Network have partnered on research and interventions.
10. See also Connie Flanagan and Peter Levine, “Civic Engagement and the Transition to Adulthood,” Future of Children 20 (2010): pp. 159–180; Peter Levine, Connie Flanagan, and Richard Settersten, Jr., “Civic Engagement and the Changing Transition to Adulthood” (Washington, DC: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, January 2009), available at www.civicyouth.org/?p=327.
RICHARD SETTERSTEN, PH.D., is Hallie Ford Endowed Chair and professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, and director of the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families, at Oregon State University. He is also a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood. A graduate of Northwestern University, Settersten has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern, and the Spencer Foundation in Chicago. He is the author or editor of many scientific articles and several books, including On the Frontier of Adulthood. Besides Mac Arthur, his research has been supported by divisions of the National Institutes of Health.
BARBARA E. RAY, as owner of Hiredpen, Inc., helps researchers and nonprofit organizations convey their work to broader audiences. She was the communications director for the MacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, and has held positions as senior writer at the DHHS-funded Joint Center for Poverty Research, and as a managing editor at the University of Chicago Press journals division. For two years while living in the western Pacific, she was a travel writer and culture reporter. Most recently, she is the executive editor of the website Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning for the MacArthur Foundation. She blogs at mybarbararay.com. She is still not quite adult.
Table of Contents
Cover
More Praise for Not Quite Adults
Title Page
Copyright
MacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy
Introduction
1. Education, Education, Education
2. Financing a Future
3. Job-Hopping or Job-Shopping in a Do-It-Yourself Economy
4. First Comes Love, Then Comes …?
5. The Unlonely Crowd: Friends and Social Networks
6. The Parent–Child Lifeline
7. iDecide: Voting and Volunteering in a Digital World
8. Converging Destinies: Prescriptions for Change
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Authors
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