Transcript Objective 11-6

Adulthood’s
Commitments
Module 11-6
Brooke McCandless
Camille Bork
Love and work
• There are two basic
aspects that dominate
adulthood: Erik Erikson
called them intimacy
(forming close
relationships) and
generativity (being
productive and supporting
future generations).
Love
• Human societies have nearly always included relatively
monogamous pairing, it makes sense from an evolutionary
perspective because parents who cooperated to nurture
their children were more likely to have their genes
passed along.
• Research shows that adult bonds of love are most
satisfying and endurign when marked by a similarity of
interest and vaules, a sharing of emotional and material
support and intimate disclosure.
• Marriage usually leads to children, but those children
eventually leave home. Most parents actually find the
“empty nest” to be enjoyable.
Love cont.
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In western societies couples
are better educated and
marry later but divorce
rates are twice as likely
than in other places.
Marriages are more likely to
last when couples marry
after age 20 and are well
educated.
The US and Canada have a
rate of one divorce for
every two marriages.
Surveys show that people who
do trial marriages actually
have higher divorce rates
than others who did not.
Work
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Entering the working world with a positive disposition that
helps engender success, overtime, reinforces a positive
approach to life.
In a study comparing North American women who are or are not
employed, researchers found that it doesn’t matter the role the
women occupies (paid worker, wife/mother) but rather the
quality of her experience in those roles.
Many people switch careers or change career plans many times
while in college.
Happiness is about having work that fits yoru interests and
provides you with a sense of accomplishment.