Barbara Ray

Barbara Ray is the author, with Richard Settersten, of Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood and Why It's Good for All of Us. She is the owner of Hiredpen, inc. (www.hiredpenchicago.com), a communications and editorial firm that brings social science research to a broader audience. She has served as the communications director for the MacArthur Network on Transitions to Adulthood, and is currently the managing editor of Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning (www.spotlight.macfound.org). She is at work on a new book on how the recession is affecting Millennials.

Books by Barbara Ray

Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone

by Richard Settersten, Barbara E. Ray

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Adulthood: What's the Rush?

Too often young adults are pigeon-holed as slackers or as refusing to grow up. The real story is quite different. This blog gets inside the heads of young adults, based on 10 years of research and more than 500 interivews. Along the way, it will dispel misperceptions about this generation and perhaps change the conversation we have about "kids these days" -- asking ultimately, 'what's the rush?' The blog draws on "Not Quite Adults" (Random House, Dec 2010), by Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray.