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Emerging Adults

Emerging Adults. Coming of Age in the 21 st Century. Emerging Adults. What does it mean to be an adult? How do you know when you have arrived? Defining terminology Emerging adulthood: Developmental Millenials: Generational term

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Emerging Adults

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  1. Emerging Adults Coming of Age in the 21st Century

  2. Emerging Adults What does it mean to be an adult? How do you know when you have arrived? Defining terminology Emerging adulthood: Developmental Millenials: Generational term “The search for youth is not all-permissibility, but rather for directly facing up to what truly counts” Erik Erikson, psychanalyst

  3. Macro Changes Leading To A New Life Phase There is an increasing number of people with post-secondary education in Canada.

  4. Macro Changes Leading To A New Life Phase Marriage In Canada The age of first marriage is increasing. Reasons for not marrying include the need to become your own person, cannot afford it, travel narrative, parental resistance, inclining confidence in the institution of marriage, a pursuit of sexual chemistry.

  5. Macro Changes Leading To A New Life Phase Career (In)stability • The average person changes jobs 7 times in the first ten years after completing post-secondary training.1Therefore, employees and employers see employment as a low commitment arrangement. • Only 1 in 10 18-26 year olds think of their current job as a career2. • In US, emerging adults reach the median wage at 30 versus 26 in 1980.2 1Arnett, Emerging Adults In America 2Failure To Launch (Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce)

  6. Macro Changes Leading To A New Life Phase Financial Apron Strings • It is estimated that US parents support their children on average $38,000 after high school graduation until complete financial independence.1 • About a quarter of university graduates move back in with their families after graduation. Most see this as temporary and have moved out within a year.1 1Arnett, Emerging Adults In America

  7. Macro Changes Leading To A New Life Phase Moral Therapeutic Deism1 • A God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth. • God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. • The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself. • God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem. • Good people go to heaven when they die. 1Smith & Denton, Soul Searching

  8. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults The Water They Swim In

  9. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults The subjective self rules1 • Perspectivism • Due to perspectivism, emerging adults typically dislike espousing a “judging worldview”; one that stands above and judges another’s worldview • “…but hey, that’s just my opinion” • Two versions of tolerance (Carson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfulscXM2EY 1Smith & Snell, Souls In Transition

  10. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults Mental heath • About 20 percent of Canadian students have felt “overwhelming anxiety” in the last 2 weeks1 • About 13 percent of Canadian students have felt “so depressed that it was difficult to function” in the last 2 weeks1 • There is a heightened incidence of anti-anxiety/anti-depression medication. In Ontario, there has been a +300% increase in use in the last 15 years.2 1National College Health Assessment 2013, Canadian Cohort 2Ontario Centre For Addiction and Mental Health

  11. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults Relationships are key • An essential outlook of emerging adults is ethical standard of “not hurting anyone”. • Withoutan objective assessment of moral standards, the highest aspiration is to be civil and non-judgmental Smith & Snell, Lost In Transition

  12. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults Doors, Bridges, and The Freedom To Choose • Emerging adults see theirtwenties as a time of exploration, hence they are loath to make commitments that lock them in and eliminate options • Individual autonomy, amorphous relationships, aversion to moral judgments keep commitment at bay. Religious words like devotion, worship, and commitment are problematic. • Religious commitment then is a type of settling down, which belongs in the future.

  13. The Cultural World of Emerging Adults Sexualization, Objectification, Pornification • The highest use demographic of pornography are 18-29 year olds. Pornography is the de facto sex educator and serves as a sexual surrogate, bridging puberty to marriage. • Most research shows a rate of incidence over 75% for Christian men and 25-30% for Christian women. These rates of incidence are only slightly lower than the general public.

  14. The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults Are they “losing their religion”?

  15. The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults Making sense the “nones” • Cohort effect or life course effect? • Making the distinction between Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics • The polarization of religious affiliation (R. Putnam) • Increased social acceptance of secularism (C. Taylor) • The challenges of measuring spiritual maturity and commitment. Objective versus subjective measures.

  16. The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults Current Snapshots • One third of Americans under 30 report being religiously unaffiliated1 • Eleven percent of Young Adult (YA) Protestants (ten percent of Catholics) become unaffiliated when “raised with a very strong faith”1. Then is this a parenting issue? • A majority of YAsraised in evangelical homes retain that affiliation (57% men, 63% women). However, 32% of men identify as “none, agnostic, or atheist”; (22% for women)2 • Most level the Christian faith through a gradual drift away (70%) and walking away from church teachings (65%)3 1Pew Forum For Religion and Public Life 2Hemmoghaging Faith Report 3Pew Forum For Religion and Public Life

  17. The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults Canadian Religious Affiliation Changes (Canadian Census; Canadian Household Survey)

  18. Ministry To Emerging Adults Finding A Place to Begin

  19. Why are millennials leaving the church? http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/27/why-millennials-are-leaving-the-church/

  20. Ministry To Emerging Adults Ministry To Christian Emerging Adults • Make commitments short and focused • Become conversant in the same sex marriage debate • Don’t over estimate the need for a “trendy” feel • A focus on community is both a biblical and PoMo value • “Christian” is not always seen as a positive label • Missional and incarnational have lost some moxy as terms but not as concepts

  21. Ministry To Emerging Adults Ministry To Non-Christian Emerging Adults • The gospel as addressing ultimate values • Become conversant in the same sex marriage debate • While the church is not always respected, Jesus is • Community involvement lends credibility to the church • The two-way street of community, plausibility, and personal pain

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