The person I interviewed for this assignment was someone I knew from my high school. For the sake of keeping her identity secret, I will call her Jane. Jane is a seventeen-year-old 11th grader that lives in Maryland. She currently lives at home with her eight-year-old sister and her two relatively young parents. Jane’s mother got pregnant while she was living in El Salvador at the age of 19. Neither her nor her husband spoke English, but they wanted to move to the United States so that their family could potentially have a better future. Jane’s parents did not come to the US with a lot of money, so they moved into Jane’s aunt’s basement until they were able to save enough money to move into their own house. Since her parents both worked long
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According to Marcia, psychological moratorium is “a period of time in the life of adolescents who are involved in a continual crisis, who continue to search for an identity and who have not made any commitments” (PAGE 161). So in this stage, an adolescent is exploring alternatives and has not made or is not ready to make a commitment. Jane is involved in many clubs that all focus on different aspects of school such as academics, involvement, and athletics. She has not made any commitments specifically involving her education and career following high school, and she is actively exploring by joining several clubs and organizations and taking some leadership positions to see what she likes and what she dislikes. She is still a Junior in high school is being pressured to go to college, but has not begun her search in terms of what to study and what college to …show more content…
When her sister was born, it was her responsibility to watch after her or babysit her while her parents were at work. As she got older, she was not only taking care of her sister, but she was also babysitting other children in her neighborhood. Since both of her parents had two jobs and continuously struggled financially, she knew she had to find a way to make money. She told me that she knew this was not what she wanted to do for the rest of her life but it was just something she had always done and it was easy. She did not have any other jobs due to lack of free time, so she was not able to explore her
According to Marcia, psychological moratorium is “a period of time in the life of adolescents who are involved in a continual crisis, who continue to search for an identity and who have not made any commitments” (PAGE 161). So in this stage, an adolescent is exploring alternatives and has not made or is not ready to make a commitment. Jane is involved in many clubs that all focus on different aspects of school such as academics, involvement, and athletics. She has not made any commitments specifically involving her education and career following high school, and she is actively exploring by joining several clubs and organizations and taking some leadership positions to see what she likes and what she dislikes. She is still a Junior in high school is being pressured to go to college, but has not begun her search in terms of what to study and what college to …show more content…
When her sister was born, it was her responsibility to watch after her or babysit her while her parents were at work. As she got older, she was not only taking care of her sister, but she was also babysitting other children in her neighborhood. Since both of her parents had two jobs and continuously struggled financially, she knew she had to find a way to make money. She told me that she knew this was not what she wanted to do for the rest of her life but it was just something she had always done and it was easy. She did not have any other jobs due to lack of free time, so she was not able to explore her