The Transition to Adulthood in Aging Societies

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ID9753232
AuthorsE Fussell (0000-0003-2812-7719, Tulane University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume580
Issue1
Pages16-39
Publication date2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716202580001002
OpenAlexW4250345368
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited39

Population aging and the delay in family formation that are occurring in industrialized countries are intimately related. Young adults are spending more of their early twenties attending school and focusing on employment, and they are postponing marriage and childbearing until their late twenties and early thirties. In sum, they are having fewer children later in life, and in doing so, they contribute to the aging of the population. Some argue that population aging results in lower public and private investments in children and greater public expenditures on the elderly. In this article, the author reviews evidence for this argument and concludes that population aging does not necessarily result in lesser investment in children and youth. Instead, our new demographic condition demands a renegotiation of the public intergenerational contract between age groups

Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Developed country · Developmental psychology · Early adulthood · Economics · Fertility · Investment (military · Political science · Population · Population ageing · Sociology · Transition (genetics · Young adult · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Genetics · Global Health Care Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment

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