The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis–and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance Audiobook (Free)

‘Former college leader and today U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of the voice pro with this friendly warning targeted at America’s parents, educators, and governing officials.’ – AudioFile Journal

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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 country about the existential risk to America’s future.

Elevated by well-meaning on the subject of The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis–and How exactly to Restore a Culture of Self-Reliance but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government courses, America’s youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy.

Lots of the coming-of-age rituals which have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of dealing with the hands, leaving home to start a family group, becoming economically self-reliant-are getting delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are challenging: 30% of college students drop out after the initial year, in support of 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 the Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation close up, sees an existential threat to the American life-style.

In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the sources of a generation that can’t grow up and will be offering a path for raising children to be active and involved citizens. He recognizes core formative encounters that all young people should go after: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, happen to be understand deprivation and wish, the energy of reading, the importance of nurturing your body-and clarifies how parents can motivate them.

Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to operate 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 kids and the future of our country.