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Postponing Adulthood

In contemporary society there is an increasing trend for adult children, capable of selfsufficiency and independence, to postpone their own adulthood. This is coupled with research indicating that adult behaviors are often a result of the impact that parent behavior had when the adult was a child and adolescent.

In almost all cases involving some sort of problematical behavior in adulthood that can be traced back to childhood, certain characteristics manifest themselves, although they are combined in innumerable ways. These characteristics include showing low selfesteem, mild to severe depression, selfpity, continual excuses for their behavior, refusal to take responsibility for their own actions, anger focused toward the world in general, a strong disposition toward not accepting any authority, a clinging financial dependency to parents or relatives, poor decision making, lack of ability to hold a job or chronic unemployment, verbal abuse of the spouse or family members, rudeness or ungrateful behavior, a sense that the world owes something to the person, the inability to make commitments, and the creation and elaboration of continual crisis situations (Stockman & Graves, 1989). Of course, these behaviors are not present in all adult children who have problems dealing with childhood parents, but they do provide a framework in which the impact of parental behaviors on adult children may be placed into perspective. This paper will concentrate on those behaviors and will present a brief overview of the literature on the subject, deal with adult children who refuse to accept adulthood, adults who were rejected by parents when they were children, adult children of alcoholics, and adult children's relationships with adult kin.

Much of the literature surrounding the impact of adult behavior falls into roughly three categories: alcoholism, perpetuation of adolescence, and rejection. Problems have been extensively identified and ...

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