Has the mid-life crisis come to the end of its life? That’s what Michael Kimmel, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of the book “Manhood in America” told the L.A Times. Others, like psychologist Orville Brim, director of the study Midlife Development in the United States, which was published in 2004 as a book, “How
Healthy Are We?” say the crisis is just mostly dead. Brim says about 10 percent of men are still swirling in a midlife turmoil. For most men, this story claims, mid-life is a time for focusing on health, finances and family. Which makes it a lot like the rest of life.
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Let me see: will reading the link prove my operative thesis that the only reason there’s no midlife crisis anymore is that baby boomers are over their “midlife” — and anything that doesn’t exist for the baby boomers doesn’t exist at all.
Well, that was instructive: turns out the midlife crisis was myth all along, even, presumably, for the baby boomers.