In the article “Suffering, Selfish, Slackers? Myths and Reality about Emerging Adults”, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett defines early adulthood as the time of instability and identity crises, even as it is rarely a time of despondency or collapse. She also theorizes that emerging adults are self-focused but not selfish and also have mixed feeling about becoming an adult. When reading this article, I definitely think that there are costs and benefits to becoming an adult. Not all adolescence is in a storm and stress idea of being at war with the parents and the world. This really depends on what environment they grew up in and how much the parents nurtured their child rather than supported but challenged their child. The cause of “war” with the parent …show more content…
Arnett references Anna Freud who’s view of adolescence involves a time when the “Oedipal motivations of childhood reassert themselves, now dangerously allied with sexual maturity, leading to an upheaval in the psyche that is a necessary part of development but is nevertheless traumatic for adolescents and everyone around them”. Anna also viewed adolescents as normal only if they were abnormal. This is because the stage of adolescents is very hard to determine when it happens and exactly what will happen. Another important point expressed in this article was that emerging adults are constantly suffering from overwhelming senses of helplessness, cluelessness, indecision, apprehension and largely experience hopelessness. An example is when a young woman sobs every other day in worry, doubting herself and being hardly abnormal in the times of education, vocational, social and anatomical transitions. Having less political and civic engagement than their parents prevents children from being involved with the open society rather than their enclosed fictional digital devices. Another major point in this article was that adolescents “just won’t grow up” as many adolescents seek an extension of their high school and/or college years, not wanting to pull away from their teens. This is really the bridge between transitioning into becoming an