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Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development posits that the Young Adult stage requires individuals to obtain intimacy, or failing to do so, retreat into isolation. If you were born 50 years ago in the U.S., you would have grown to adulthood with the belief that the proper life course involved finishing high school, obtaining a good job (if you were male), getting married, and then having 2.5 children. With this developmental path, most individuals were finding intimacy through marriage in the Young Adult stage.

In contast, if you are born in 2017 in the U.S., you will witness a wide variety of different life courses and decisions about relationships and reproduction. For this discussion forum, let’s consider those various life courses.

For Your Post:

1) Choose a variation on the traditional life course (for example: arranged marriage, cohabitating without the intent to marry, having children without being in a relationship, choosing to be childless, choosing to not be in a relationship, LGBT relationships and marriage, marrying after children, becoming a parent as an adolescent).

2) Learn more about how this difference impacts socioemotional development during the Young Adult life stage by reading some reputable websites online. Our definition of a reputable source is one that meets all three of the following criteria:

• Authored by individual professional author(s) or professional organization in a field relevant to developmental psychology
• The source is sufficiently formal, designed for a professional audience (not a blog or other type of “pop psych” piece)
• The author’s own sources are clearly identified in a reference list within the publication.

3) Report on what you’ve learned in your post. Your information should include at least two specific challenges individuals with the alternate life course you chose are likely to face with regards to successfully completing the Young Adult stage per Erikson’s theory, and how they are likely to attempt to overcome these challenges. Your entry should demonstrate college-level writing. Be sure to include hyperlink(s) for your sources.

For your two responses to your classmates’ posts:

1) Compare and contrast the psychosocial developmental impact of the life course you chose with the one your classmate chose. What do these life courses have in common? How are they unique?

2) For the life course your classmate chose: How do you imagine individuals in this life course will be managing at the end of Young Adulthood? How prepared will they be to face Erikson’s psychosocial tasks of Middle Adulthood?

first student :having children without being in a relationship

COLLAPSE

It shows that a lot of older adults accept the fact of having children without being married. I feel like it could have an effect on the child. If it happens that things do not work out it could cause problems in the long run. In the article it stated, “Young adults are particularly accepting of cohabitation – 78% of those ages 18 to 29 say it’s acceptable for an unmarried couple to live together, even if they don’t plan to get married – but majorities across age groups share this view. Still, even among those younger than 30, a substantial share (45%) say society is better off if couples who want to stay together long-term eventually get married. Roughly half of those ages 30 to 49 say the same, as do majorities of those ages 50 and older”. Even if couples are together and they plan on getting married, a child could have an effect on their relationship.

Horowitz, Juliana Menasce, et al. “Views on Marriage and Cohabitation in the U.S.” Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project, Pew Research Center, 27 Aug. 2020, www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/11/06/marriage-and-cohabitation-in-the-u-s/.

second student:Cohabitation

COLLAPSE

From my experiecne, cohabitation is a goos way to see what its like to live with someone before making a comitment to marry them. Reading online I found that this a very popular option for a lot of people. People over age 50 seem to be the most popular demgraphic opting for cohabitation instead of mariage simoply to avoid the legal obligations associated with marriage. On the other hand millenials cohabitate to get to klnow their partner mopre before deciding to marry.

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/601842/living-together-but-not-married-consider-a-cohabitation-agreement