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The Statistics Canada study says young adults took longer to “make key life transitions to adulthood” in 2001 than their counterparts were three decades earlier.

In recent years, both young men and women have delayed many transitions. For example, in 2001, half of all 22-year-olds were still in school. Only one in five had a partner (usually common-law), and one in 11 had children.

In 1971, three-quarters of young adults at the age of 22 had left school. Nearly half were married and one in four had children.

As well, in 2001, the time between transitions had increased, stretching the process from the late teens to the early 30s. Youth in 1971 packed more life transitions into the years from their late teens to mid-20s and fewer transitions into their early 30s.


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