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Challenges Young Adults Face

Introduction

We live in strange times where many young adults are confronted with very defining moments of their human growth and development that tend to shape their personality, character, identity, and destiny. The salient narrative engulfing young adults still expresses undesirable debates of a great rate of drug and alcohol abuse, identity crisis, loneliness, unemployment, poor parenting, criminal acts, teenage pregnancies, just to mention but a few as outlined here below;

Key Challenges Young Adults Face

Drug and alcohol abuse is one of the key challenges confronting young adults. It mostly comes as an outcome of ignorance amongst young adults who are less informed on the impacts such challenge has on their human health and entire life (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2011). Furthermore, young adults are equally facing identity crisis challenges; the majority of them don’t know themselves well, hence they have overwhelming pressure associated with their body appearance and sexual life (Neinstein, & Irwin, 2013). The majority try to avoid feedback they receive on how they look and how they ought to look. In the same breath, young adults face a challenge of loneliness brought about by technologies such as smartphones and internet that make them spend a lot of time on social media. This reduces their levels of physical interaction and socialization with friends and family members.

Additionally, young adults face the challenge of unemployment. This is mostly instigated by poor government policies, and organizations’ uncompromising measures like retrenchment or redundancy declarations (Mlatsheni, 2012). Lastly, young adults confront poor parenting challenges. The majority of young adults are raised in unfortunate orphanages, hardship, and broken families, which in return affects their personal growth and taste of family life. (Golombok, 2014).

 Conclusion

A critical look and evaluation of salient issues that are highly contributing to the modern challenges confronting young adults are emanating from the unprecedented different modern lifestyles that young adults try to confront without critically questioning and evaluating their benefits and shortcomings. In the same line of thought, young adults are not really submerging themselves into drinking, drug abuse, criminal acts as it may be envisaged by the media. Instead, they are mostly involved in less bad deeds. This is due to the high demands of their studies and other engagements that help them make ends meet amidst hard life compounded with high costs of living. In as much as this takes place, we have a generation that is progressively embracing safe living styles, and self-driven to realize the beauty of their dreams in positive sense.

Golombok, S. (2014). Parenting: What really counts?. Routledge.

Mlatsheni, C. (2012). The challenges unemployment imposes on youth. Shaping the future of South Africa’s youth: Rethinking post-school education and skills training, 31-41.

Neinstein, L. S., & Irwin Jr, C. E. (2013). Young adults remain worse off than adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 53(5), 559-561.

Hanson, G., Venturelli, P., & Fleckenstein, A. (2011). Drugs and society. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.