Sentences with phrase «markers of adulthood»

Try as I might to remain benevolently immature until the end of my days, there are some telltale markers of adulthood (nay, perhaps even middle - age) creeping into my subconscious of late.

Luckily our friendships are based on more than this, but I definitely have those days where I feel a twinge of insecurity and wish I had more of the conventional markers of adulthood on the horizon.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

Today, more than 95 percent of Americans consider the most important markers of adulthood to be completing school, establishing an independent household, and being employed full - time — concrete steps associated with the ability to support a family.

Millennials have become a much maligned generation — they're either living in their parents» basement, or spending too much time playing video games, or unable to buy a home because they're spending too much money on avocado toast or delaying marriage, aka «failing» to reach the traditional markers of adulthood (hey, maybe those markers need -LSB-...]

Because some of the cultural markers of adulthood are shifting, where adolescence ends is also shifting.

An increasing number of youth are taking longer to achieve the typical markers of adulthood — full - time job, spouse, car, house — and it's a source of shame and anxiety for the millennials receiving assistance.

Not exact matches

Unlike their parents» and grandparents» generations, for whom marriage and parenthood were prerequisites for adulthood, young people today more often view these markers as life choices rather than requirements, as steps that complete the process of becoming an adult rather than start it.

Notes Pamela Aronson, associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, in The Markers and Meanings of Growing Up: Contemporary Young Women's Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood:

In conclusion, aging causes the loss of many of the anabolic signals and an increase in catabolic signals to muscle that are present in young adulthood, but this study suggests that whey protein, essential amino acid, and vitamin D supplementation, together with gentle physical activity, can produce changes in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - I.

The standard repayment schedule for college loans is 10 years, but nationally the average bachelor's degree holder is taking twice as long, dramatically delaying homeownership and other markers of settled adulthood.

To determine whether similar processes occur in the aging dog, changes in markers of inflammation and oxidative stress were investigated in 80 Labrador retrievers from adulthood to the end of life.

It is a celebration of her fifteenth birthday and an important marker for her entrance into adulthood.

The established developmental risk factors of family history of heart disease and high childhood BMI predicted the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood (Table 2, panel 3).

These abnormalities tend to cluster in the same individuals.18, 19 Evidence shows that the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood is associated with elevated risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia in later life.18, 20 Importantly, depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers frequently co-occur in the same individuals, and their co-occurrence is associated with the greatest disease risk.20, 21 To improve life quality in aging populations, it is critical to gain a better understanding of the origins of these 3 age - related - disease risks.

One marker of the salience of this tie in adulthood is that the quality of sibling relations is a strong predictor of psychological well - being even into late life (Cicirelli, 1989; Paul, 1997).

Since after adding the childhood factors there is no statistical correlation of maternal depression during pregnancy with offspring depression in adulthood anymore, this seems suggestive that maternal depression during pregnancy is more probably a marker of mothers with higher risk of developing depression during offspring childhood and of offering / allowing maladaptive parental behaviour.