They tend to make short term commitments linked to immediate benefits. Loyalty occurs in relationships that resemble familial relationships. This is the generation in search for the family. From the ravages of broken homes and the dark side of dual income couples, this generation has emerged looking for the intimacy and commitment that many of them did not know in their own families. Similarly, in our training programs, the twentysomethings demonstrate consistent tendencies toward their concept of truth.
Truth is understood apart from absolutes.
This generation has reaped the harvest of the moral relativism of the 1960's and 1970's. Truth for them tends to be determined by context and culture rather than by conformity to transcending religious or philosophical beliefs. Truth is often diminished by a misguided understanding of compassion. Today's twentysomethings have great difficulty when truth and tolerance collide. Many in this generation believe that tolerance sets the parameters for truth rather than vice versa.