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Postmodern rejuvenation of grown-ups: who kidults are?

@inproceedings{Dvornyk2016PostmodernRO,
  title={Postmodern rejuvenation of grown-ups: who kidults are?},
  author={Marina Dvornyk},
  year={2016}
}
The paper is dedicated to the kidult figure – childish adult – as a generation of postmodern reality. It is postulated that 20-35-yeared people escaping from their biological age by desire to dress up into teenage clothes, by anti-aging treatments, by searching of extreme experiences, by the lack of investments in long-term relationships and properties is a logical process of youth lifestyle standardization and juvenile society of postmodern times. The parallelisms for kidult definitions as the… 
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