journey to becoming a man. If you ask them when the transition occurs, you will get a variety of answers: "When you get a car," "When you graduate from college," "When you get a real job,""When you lose your virginity," "When you get married, "When you have a kid," and so on. The problem with many of these traditional rites of passage is that they have been put off further and further in a young man's life. Fifty years ago the average age an American man started a family was 22. Today, men (for ill or good) are getting married and having kids later in life. With these traditional rites of passage increasingly being delayed, many men are left feeling stuck between boyhood and manhood. College? Fewer men are graduating. And many that do "boomerang"back home again, spending another few years figuring out what the next step in their life should
be. As traditional rites of passage have become fuzzier, young men are plagued with a sense of being adrift.
Of course the process of becoming a man, ceremony or not, does not happen in a single moment.But rites of passage are important in delineating when a boy should start thinking of himself as a man, when he should start carrying himself as a man, when the community should start respecting him as a man, and when he should start shouldering the responsibilities of a man.Lacking these important markers, many young men today belabor their childhood, never sure of when they've really "manned up."
What Is a Rite of Passage
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