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Slouching Toward Adulthood: Observations From The Not-So-Empty Nest (2012)

by Sally Koslow(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670023620 (ISBN13: 9780670023622)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: Koslow believes my generation is too lazy, coddled, and scared to make it the way hers did. Anecdotes and statistics are used to highlight the differences in the choices and lifestyles of twenty-somethings now and a generation ago -- all the while minimizing the immeasurably more important structural changes that have occurred since then. Besides the fact that her generation facilitated the destruction of our planet and middle class wealth, Koslow overestimates the importance of "making hard choices" in a society that has left young educated Americans with very few good ones.
review 2: I agreed with just about everything the author wrote of when speaking of the so-called adultescent. My husband and I have voiced these same concerns for many years in relation ... moreto our own sons. But I still found the book to be relatively annoying and I can't put my finger on why. It may have been the book being excessively long and bogged down with study after study. Exhausting after a while!! I guess I really don't need a thousand studies to prove what we see on a daily basis. I was just looking to see that my husband and I aren't the only "nuts" who catered to our kids' every whim. Guess the book showed that but it probably could have shown the same things in half the amount of pages. less

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