declining role models.
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Respond to two classmates post, 250 word each, must include one APA citation (within 7 yrs)
Post by Megan
This “failure to launch” issue is growing at an alarming rate. Gill (2012) states, “Forty-two percent of adults age 20 to 29 still live with their parents. That’s almost unchanged from 2006. But it’s way up from 1981 when just 27 percent of young adults lived at home.” (p. 1) The main reasons I found for this issue is a lack of seriousness when it comes to education, and declining role models.
The surprising thing about this issue, is that most of the research is geared towards men having this issue. I know plenty of girls still living with their parents late into their 20’s and there seems to be more tolerance for girls than men in that area. In their article “Failure to launch” Van Wert and Glen (2010) discuss the early signs of apathy toward education and how they often lead to “failure to launch” problems in early adulthood. They state, “Beginning in elementary school, boys earn low grades, receiving 70% of the D’s and F’s, while girls earn 60% of the A’s.” (p. 14) The article goes on to discuss the fact that the classroom is geared toward female learning styles. The classroom is quiet, orderly, and small neat notes are taken. Boys who don’t learn this way get frustrated and can develop a bitterness toward education, which adversely affects them later in life. These students who have problems with school when they’re young, have a higher likelihood of dropping out of high school and college. This is a problem, esspecially when their education could be their road to a job, which gets them off their parents’ couch long before age 29. In the bible, there is so much talk about idleness and hardwork. Proverbs 13:4 states, “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.” While children’s frustration with school is not their fault, in their bitterness toward it they can become “sluggards”, which leaves them feeling like a nothing, eventhough they are the opposite.
Another issue that can lead to a problem with “failure to launch” is the lack of quality role models in the media and just in life in general. Van Wert and Glen (2010) goes on to explain, “The traditional male roles of protector, providor, and dispenser of family wisdom..have all but vanished…today’s TV dad is a bulmbling, barely competent, overgrown teenager…” (p. 15) Our role models for adulthood are a mess. Twenty somethings don’t have a clear idea of what it means to be a twenty something. Who do they look to, to see what’s normal or expected of them at 20 something? I think there’s this great wave of ambiguity over the 20 something generation, mixed with their lack of role models showing them how it’s done, that leaves them paralyzed. I think this is a serious reason for their need to be under their parent’s roof at ages that their parents were probably working, married, and with children.
1 Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” Except, now, we’ve forgotten how to give up our childish ways, and instead, we’re finding comfort in them.
References
Gill, R. (2012, Sep 19). Failure to launch. Global News Transcripts. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1048195839?accountid=12085
Glenn, L. A., & Van Wert, S. (2010). Failure to launch. The New England Journal of Higher Education, 24(3), 14-16. Retrieved from
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