Moxy Magazine

For some people it’s outdated. For others it’s worth the wait. Either way, many Gen Y-ers are waiting until they “grow up” to get married. According to the Washington Post, there has been a 6% decrease in marriage for adults over 18—from 57% in 2000 to 51% in 2010. And that difference is even greater [...]

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When Rachel Bertsche first moved to Chicago, she was thrilled to finally share a zip code (let alone an apartment) with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realized that her new life is missing one thing: friends.
Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. But in her adopted hometown, there’s no one to call at the last minute for girl talk over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Taking matters into her own hands, Bertsche developed a plan: She’d go on fifty-two friend-dates, one per week for a year, in hopes of meeting her new Best Friend Forever.

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Mainstream media portrays Gen Y men as drunkards and hooligans. Is this picture accurate?

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Ray* went to college to study criminal justice; his father was a police officer and he planned on becoming a police officer too. He never felt pressured to follow in his father’s footsteps; he just decided he wanted to become a cop. After college he applied for the force—they started the background checks and he [...]

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