A young adult is an informal term used to describe the transition from teenager to adult.
Young adult falls usually between 16-25, encompassing the end of the teenager years and the beginning of adulthood.
Young adults usually enter post-secondary education and/or engage in work. At this early age of adulthood, young adults usually cannot make as much money as regular adults. Young adults usually deal with terms like minimum wage, inexperience, tuition, and deficits, when they start out in adulthood.
"Young adult literature" is also a term used in publishing and librarianship, to distinguish books written for the age group of young adults. As with all subdefinitions of children's literature, there is debate as to what are the defining criteria for this label.
Youngadultliterature is often thought of as a great abyss between the wonderfully exciting and engaging materials for children and those for adults--just as youngadults are often ignored in planning library facilities and services.
These contemporary problem novels reflect the troubled times in which young readers are coming of age, but young people also need to laugh at themselves and at their world and to escape that world in flights of fancy.
With greater freedom in both content and form, youngadultliterature is moving into a closer connection with adultliterature, and fluent readers in this age group may read primarily adult books.
Guided by Sons and Daughters of the Light: A Pastoral Plan for Ministry with YoungAdults, we seek to promote a youngadult perspective within the archdiocese, and to facilitate communication and collaboration between and among the archdiocese and regional and parish youngadult groups.
We have a vision of the church as a place where youngadults are at home; where their gifts are acknowledged and their lives are supported and nourished; where youngadults exercise servant leadership in worship, catechesis, social ministry and evangelization.
Hispanic youngadult ministry is coordinated by a team of volunteers, led by Jessica Suarez and advised by Joe Castro and Fr.
Feeds |
Contact