excellent article: a critique of emerging adulthood

I just read Slacking as Self-Discovery: the re-branding of indolence as 'emerging adulthood.'  A very thoughtful analysis of the solely-positive spin some are putting on emerging adulthood.  A quick quote to get you interested (or not!):

“ 'Maybe if kids take longer to choose their mates and their careers, they’ll make fewer mistakes and live happier lives.'  This seems to be intended as the most persuasive argument in favor of welcoming emerging adulthood as a developmental phase. No doubt many adults wish in hindsight that their youth had lasted longer, but it’s not actually clear from such nostalgia that a longer youth would have resulted in a happier or wiser adulthood, assuming they ever decided to try out adulthood. Since time itself is not guidance in matters of marriage or vocation (especially if both are delayed because they are either unavailable or no longer worthwhile in principle), today’s emerging adults may just be taking longer to make the same mistakes. Unless we believe that the longer one takes to make a decision, the better it will be — such that the person who delays marriage until the age of 90 is most likely to choose the best spouse — we must look to some other standard to determine the wisdom of such decisions."