Making a Life-Saving Connection With Millennials

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Monday, March 31, 2014

Demographers tell us that Millennials are young adults aged 18 to 33. They're often the ones you see sipping a latte at Starbucks, checking their Twitter feeds, or texting their friends.

According to a Pew Research report entitled "Millennials in Adulthood," they are incredibly well connected to friends, family, and colleagues via all the latest digital platforms. But as University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox says, when it comes to "the core human institutions that have sustained the American experiment - work, marriage, and civil society," the Millennials' ties "are worryingly weak."