DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

Excellent and Accessible View of Emerging Adulthood

Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties
By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 280 pp. Paper, $19.95.

Not that long ago, adolescence was a brief period, often over by 18 to 21 years of age. As Jeffrey Jensen Arnett expertly demonstrates in Emerging Adulthood, that is true no longer. Extended adolescence—or, in Arnett's preferred term, emerging adulthood—can last until 30 or even later. Today's young people are more and more likely to delay settling down into marriage, parenthood, and stable jobs.