By Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ph.D. , Dean and director, The Ohio State University at Mansfield; President, Great Thinker Productions, LLC
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | August 10, 2012
The prominent impact of families can and does extend into the college years, especially when parents and their sons and daughters recognize the need to renegotiate how they interact with one another.
POSTER TOPICS: Spirituality, Religion and Families; Health Issues; Aging, Gerontology, and Caregiving; Death and Dying; Domestic and Family Violence; Curriculum Building; Useful Family Resources
Recently the lives of people from age 18 to 29 have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed, emerging adulthood, that is distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than marrying and becoming parents in their early twenties, most people in industrialized societies now postpone these transitions until at least their late twenties, and instead spend the time in self-focused exploration as they try out different possibilities in their careers and relationships.
