Week 7 response to Emmet

Youth are constantly in flux.  It is perhaps the most harrowing and promising time in an individual’s existence.  Yet what it means to be “young” is constantly changing.  Chap Clark has done many studies regarding adolescense, and found that what it means to be 12 years old today is radically different from what it meant to be 12 in 1940.  There is today a frustration with childhood and youth that can be seen in the way that celebrities crash their ferraris and BMW’s.  Often we impose adulthood upon our youth.  When youth reach adulthood, in the sense of age, many times they now find themselves in a position to develop and live the childhood that was previously denied them in many ways.