Twixters

Foi a descoberta do dia - uma palavra nova para uma atitude que conheço bem...
A reportagem completa saiu na Times de 16 de Janeiro e intitula-se:

TWIXTERS -- Grow Up? Not So Fast
Meet the twixters. They're not kids anymore, but they're not adults either. why a new breed of young people won't - or can't - settle down

"It appears to take young people longer to graduate from college, settle into careers and buy their first homes. What are they waiting for? Who are these permanent adolescents, these twentysomething Peter Pans? And why can't they grow up?"
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"Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, favors "emerging adulthood"to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the twixters are misunderstood. It's too easy to write them off as overgrown children, he argues. Rather, he suggests, they're doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. "This is the one time of their lives when they're not responsible for anyone else or to anyone else," Arnett says. "So they have this wonderful freedom to really focus on their own lives and work on becoming the kind of person they want to be." In his view, what looks like incessant, hedonistic play is the twixters' way of trying on jobs and partners and personalities and making sure that when they do settle down, they do it the right way, their way. It's not that they don't take adulthood seriously; they take it so seriously, they're spending years carefully choosing the right path into it."
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"Maybe the twixters are in denial about growing up, but the rest of society is equally in denial about the
twixters. Nobody wants to admit they're here to stay, but that's where all the evidence points."
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