They may drink all your wine at a holiday party or not think twice about quitting a job to go backpack Europe, but don’t reduce Millennials to a stereotype too quickly.
For the generation whose norm is to question the norm — and then going against the norm — the evidence that Millennials are becoming more socially conservative may not come as too much of a shock.
While the majority of this demographic can’t wholly be claimed by conservatives, yet, but on the topics of dating and marriage, the tides seem to be turning.
An Atlantic article from May 2015 titled “The Sexually Conservative Millennials” posited that young Americans are embracing “surprisingly traditional views on relationships.”
The same article revealed that 71 percent of Millennials still think marriage is a valid institution. They’re just waiting longer to get married and have kids.
An Elite Daily piece reduced this change to the typical yearning for young people to rebel, seeing this turn to more traditional views on relationships Millennials way of “rebelling in a way we didn’t anticipate.”
But can the data showing “conservative” trends merely be pinned as “rebellion” — or is it time to realize that there is no way to label Millennials, the largest generation currently, as being all the same?
