Man, that NY Times article about "adulthood" pissed me off. The conflation of adulthood with parenthood is absurd, of course, but also--college is unaffordable, unemployment is rampant, wages are stagnant, housing is terribly expensive, healthcare is a crapshoot, childcare and parental leave are woefully inadequate... what are young people stuck in these impossible situations supposed to do? We have a broken socio-economic system, and the NY Times would rather blame the victims than acknowledge the bigger structural problems.
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Date: 2010-06-16 04:47 pm (UTC)