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Armstrong quoted in the Michigan Daily: “young people see college as a unique life stage in which they don’t – and shouldn’t – have obligations other than their own self-development.”
January 28, 2020
In a 2013 interview with The New York Times, University of Michigan sociologist Elizabeth Armstrong explained that “increasingly, many privileged young people see college as a unique life stage in which they don’t – and shouldn’t – have obligations other than their own self-development.”In the same article, a young woman with a serious boyfriend told the Times that she felt “as if she were breaking a social taboo,” saying, “Am I allowed to find the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with when I’m 19? I don’t really know. It feels like I’m not.”