Age 30 Transition
Daniel Levinson suggested that the first phase of early adulthood comes to a close around twenty-eight to thirty, when 'at about 28 the provisional character of the twenties is ending and life is becoming more serious...the age-thirty crisis.' Others have spoken of 'the Catch-30 Passage...between age 28 and 32', stressing that 'it is not uncommon, at the approach to the thirties, to tear up the life structure one put together to support the original dream of the twenties,' and to start anew - 'to create the basis for the next life structure.'
When 'the Age Thirty Transition' is a difficult one, 'in a severe crisis he experiences a threat to life itself, the danger of chaos and dissolution, the loss of hope for the future.'
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