“With the foundation in place, we look forward to the next decade or research, which will deepen our knowledge and understanding of adolescence and of young people in the life course within a rapidly changing world”. (Johnson et all, 2011)
I am a mother of two kids. A boy who’s twelve and a girl who’s 7, so this study, and particularly this ending, was simply a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from be cause I had to find hope. When the decade of research they are waiting for comes (keep in mind the research was published seven years ago), it might be too late to stop whatever it is I’m doing wrong! if there is such a thing. Not so great for a hopeful ending of the article.
Here is what I can connect, though: Whatever my twelve year old is doing, affects my seven year old in ways I cannot begin to imagine, but that I can see every single day, specially because lately, we only have the four of us. If I though it was scary being a teenager in my unmentionable second decade, I had no clue. Watching unstoppable adolescence come on the way of your offsprings and not being able to blink, that’s true suspense. Think about that when you throw harmless conditional sentences about becoming a parent to the air.