Friendship

Friendship is extremely important throughout life, especially in emerging adulthood. Emerging adults are constantly facing decision about everyday life and about the future, they need friends and support to make those decisions and people to talk to when they are feeling stressed. Emerging adults not only have the friends that they grew up with but they are also constantly making new friends while going to college or in their jobs. One type of friendship that is more pronounced and can be considered my controversial is the friendship between males and females. A vast majority of adults believe that if a male and a female are friends they are dating or that they have an intimate relationship, which is not necessarily the case. In today's age of emerging adults these types of friendships are more and more normal, but they usually do not occur if either the male or the female is already in a relationship, because they do not want to upset their partner or cause any suspicion as to whether they are being faithful or not. Friendship is an important part of an emerging adults life as they prepare for the rest of their lives and start navigating the hardships of adulthood through all of this they turn to friends for support.

Reference:
Berger, K. S. (2011). The Developing Person Through the Life Span. New York: Worth Publishers.