twixters

And, after Matthew pointed out the newsweekly cover story to me, I now understand the concept of "twixters," kids in their twenties who want neither to be kids nor full-fledged grownups.

Norm Ornstein: Graduation 2008

UDOJI: As twixters search, they're changing the definition of adulthood into something that works for them.

CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2005 2005

They call them the twixters, mid-20s, wracking up debt, many living with mom and dad still.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

But don't accuse twixters of holding onto adolescence.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

We'll take a look today at what is driving this generation, the twixters.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

But don't accuse twixters of holding onto adolescence.

CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2005 2005

UDOJI: As twixters search, they're changing the definition of adulthood into something that works for them.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

We got lots of people on our own staff who are these twixters, these boomerang kids.

CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2005 2005

Call them twixters, thresholders or boomerangers, 20-somethings putting off marriage, procreating and settling down.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2005 2005

The twixters aren't lazy, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation.

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