ARTICLE:If you're a 20 or 30 something, there's a good chance you feel that despite age or traditional expectations, you're still not an "adult." In this article, Brooke Donatone provides her perspective on emerging adulthood--a phrase used to describe adolescence creeping into the 20s--as people are less inclined to consider themselves full-fledged adults after completing high school or college. Feeling unworthy of adopting the adult moniker makes complete sense to Donatone; life spans are longer, parents are hovering, jobs are hard to come by, and completing school with a bachelors degree does not mean job security, with this being the highest education generation yet. All of these factors make it incredibly hard to ease in to adulthood the way prior generations have. In addition, the societal expectation of instant gratification has many young adults at a loss for why they aren't seeing "adult" achievements instantaneously, creating an increasingly frustrated and depressed generation (with depression rates soaring at 44% for college students). The author argues that millennials are not a narcissistic generation as much as they are they are a generation suffering from low frustration tolerance; they are an emotionally dependent, and need constant advice and help with conflict resolution and coping. While everyone and their mother seems to know the answer to why millennial's are the way they are, this is less of an anecdotal cause-and-effect perspective, going first hand to the deepest fears and frustrations of a group as seen by an
SITE:http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/12/millennial_narcissism_helicopter_parents_are_college_students_bigger_problem.html
