For emerging adults, pandemic serves up unique challenges
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “This generation is losing out on this key transition period,” says Kathryn Sabella, director of research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research. “There’s a sense of despair and hopelessness.” Emerging adulthood is a key time to explore career options, but the pandemic is putting that on hold. I just want to emphasize that they are resilient, and they’re at a point in life where you can recover from a year or even a two-year delay.” Bryleigh McCarty, 21, says her life in Longmont, Colorado, got “10 times more stressful” when the pandemic hit, but therapy has helped her discover her own strength. “I’ve learned that I am much stronger than I thought I was.” But Arnett and other experts agree the pandemic poses particular challenges for some subsets of this population, including young people aging out of the foster system and those with serious mental illness.
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