Young Adults

Reaching Out To Young Adults Will Screw Up Your Church

Rev. Adam J. Copeland | Posted 05.30.2012

Rev. Adam J. Copeland

While many mainline churches say "we want young people," they don't really. If young adults actually showed up and joined their church for good, the change they'd naturally bring with them would be stark, even off-putting.

Rite of Passage

Tom W. Watson | Posted 05.22.2012

Tom W. Watson

The spring of my son's high school graduation became a "rite of passage" ceremony for him. No, we didn't have him sleep outside in the wild and drink milk laced with blood. But we did make a concerted effort to transition him from a boy living at home to a young man in the world.

Getting By With A Little Help From Mom And Dad

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.03.2012

Here's another sign that young people are struggling to make it on their own. Of young adults between the ages of 19 and 22, 62 percent rely on fin...

Surprising Share Of Young People Are Struggling To Afford Basic Needs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.01.2012

Can't afford basic needs? Odds are you’re a millennial, according to a new survey. One quarter of millennials, or the generation aged 18 to 34, a...

Surprising Group More Likely To Live With Parents

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.26.2012

Apparently having a warm little nest makes it tough to leave home. Young adults from affluent families are more likely to live at home than their ...

Seven Ways to Straighten Your Boomerang Child

Richard Barrington | Posted 04.03.2012

Richard Barrington

Most parents are more than willing to make sacrifices for their children, and will make accommodations for them when they are in need. However, when young adults return home, it shouldn't be to experience a second childhood.

Four Reasons I Came Back To Church

Christian Piatt | Posted 04.02.2012

Christian Piatt

I left the church as a teenager on less than good terms. My youth leader threw a Bible at me for persisting with my questions. Fortunately, I found a new community that represented something different.

No Work for the Willing

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.26.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

Most young men and women today want to work hard, but for those under 25 years old, work has often been impossible to find.

The Cyber Generation's Addiction to Detachment

Bethany St. James | Posted 05.22.2012

Bethany St. James

When we speak of educating people about sex, shouldn't we also take into consideration the importance of connecting with people outside the online realm?

The Fine Line

Alexa Gorman | Posted 05.08.2012

Alexa Gorman

As a journalism student, I've been thinking about the fine line between the professional world and what I like to call the goof-ball world.

Why It's A Lousy Time To Be A Twenty-Something

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.07.2012

Attention, young workers: It's not your imagination. Your're underpaid. Wages for employees in their twenties took a sharp dive during the past de...

Jeffrey Young

Under New Health Care Law, One Group Is Already Benefiting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.13.2012

Health reforms at the state level that permit young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance resulted in better access to medical care, an ...

Alexander Eichler

Employment Rate For Young Adults Lowest In 60 Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.09.2012

Are you young and looking for work? You're in good company. Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study re...

WATCH: Mistakes Young People Should Make, From Kelly Cutrone

Posted 04.08.2012

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Presidential Candidates Missing Common Sense Strategies With the Millenials

Jessica Headley | Posted 03.20.2012

Jessica Headley

In the well of progression lies sustainable wisdom and birthing of new ideas. Young adults are the bearers of much of that utility, and therefore ough...

FMLA & Beer Pong: Social Media Is the Cause of -- And Solution To -- All of Life's Problems

Matthew Zachary | Posted 03.07.2012

Matthew Zachary

21st Century Suggestion: Do not post photos of yourself on Facebook vacationing with your family in Cabo when you are disability leave from your job.

Young People More Likely To Favor Socialism Than Capitalism: Pew

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.30.2011

Young people -- the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement -- might be getting...

Post 50 Music: The Lost Audience

Hank Bordowitz | Posted 02.14.2012

Hank Bordowitz

We are the generation that invaded record stores on Wednesday, when the new releases came out, wanting to be the first of our friends to have the new cool album. We slept on sidewalks outside of Korvettes for the first tickets to the Dr. Pepper Festival. We took and continue to take our musical entertainment seriously. It matters to us.

Should You Move In Together?

Mary Wheeler | Posted 02.12.2012

Mary Wheeler

Consider why you're doing it in the first place and if it's for the right reasons.

Who The Recession Left Most Financially Vulnerable

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.29.2011

While the Great Recession has affected nearly all Americans in some form, it's young adults who have suffered some of the worst economic losses since ...

A New Field of Medicine: Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

Ali Ansary | Posted 01.16.2012

Ali Ansary

Ownership begins with patients taking control of their health and starting with the simple questions to their physicians, "Did you know there is an adolescent and young adult cancer segment called AYA?"

Cities Americans Most Want To Live In

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.09.2012

New York might just be the most divisive city in the country. On the one hand, the Big Apple is the city Americans say they most want to live in, ...

New Census Numbers Show Young Adults Are Flocking To D.C.

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.27.2011

WASHINGTON -- According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday, the Washington metropolitan area gained roughly 7,000 people between the ages...

Who Are the Joneser Boomers Keeping Up With?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011

Bernard Starr

If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.

Failure To Launch

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.07.2011

Wendy Dennis

I used to think that adolescence was the rough ride of parenthood and that once it was over I could cruise to the finish line. But the one thing they ...