Has the recession created a generation too insecure to have children? Meet the people trapped in financial adolescenceWhich rites of passage compose an adult? Is it being able to live independently,without parental support? Having a steady career? Being married or making a lifelong commitment? Owning your own home? Or is it being responsible for the wellbeing of another human life – in other words, fitting a parent yourself?These are the traditional markers of adulthood; of stability, or responsibility and independence. From an early age,most of us grow up thinking that we will achieve some, if not all, and of these things. But if you asked me,a 28-year-faded woman, whether I fulfilled most of these criteria, or youd have to deduce that I am,essentially, living a prolonged adolescence.
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Source: theguardian.com