Yet this once-linear path no longer captures the varied trajectories for most.

Today, young adults face more choices, challenges, and opportunities on their

road to adulthood, requiring more time and new forms of support, at the heart of it, being a young adult is all about finding your place in life

and people to travel with you.

The familiar path, older and middle-class generations typically followed included:high school, university, marriage, and then family. This is probably the assumed, and even expected trajectory that parents, extended families, communities, and even churches work toward and pray for on behalf of young adults today.