The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse

The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse

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In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.

Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy.

Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant--are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents.

From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life.

In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body--and explains how parents can encourage them.

Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly--without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country.

Senator Ben Sasse hails from Nebraska's sixth generation. He went to public school in Fremont, Nebraska, and spent his summers working in soybean and corn fields as the son of a football and wrestling coach. Before going to Oxford, he was recruited to wrestle at Harvard, where he later obtained a Ph.D. Yale University offers a degree in American history. Prior to joining the Senate, Sasse served as president of Midland University in his hometown for five years.

As maybe the lone commuting family in the United States, Ben and his wife, Melissa, live in Nebraska but homeschool their three children while commuting to Washington, DC on a weekly basis.

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ISBN 13	9781250114402
ISBN 10	1250114403
Title	The Vanishing American Adult
Author	Ben Sasse
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2017-05-16
Number of pages	320
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