Diventare adulti. Il rischio dello stalle intergenerazionale

[Autom. eng. transl.] The contribution of Eugenia Scabini and Vittorio Cigoli, Becoming adults. The risk of intergenerational stalling, taking strength from research work, highlights some crucial questions about the transition difficulty towards adulthood on the part of the young adult generation. The authors attribute an important role to the imbalance, within family ties, of the affective polarity to the detriment of the ethical one, with an excess of mothering and a defect of the symbolic-paternal. This aspect clashes in a contradictory and often “dramatic” way with what the young adult finds when he ventures outside the family, especially in the world of work, in which the adult generation 14 and n. 11-12 / 2014 appears to be anything but caring and welcoming towards young people. These aspects are further evaluated by the authors in the families that had to face the separative transition and in the families with a more de ned social commitment, observing, in the two cases, that the new generations present characteristics that tend to to be opposed, and which, in the second case, appear to be favored in their inclusion in the social fabric. The central question of the difficulty in passing the baton between the generations is identified in the weakening of the symbolic-generative aspect present in families and in our social context.