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Waithood is applicable only to college educated people who are not compelled to settle in blue collar jobs due to support from family elders or resources. Due to the lack of any potential employment, waithood is also tangentially related to rising rate of belated parenthood in various developing
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Cuzzocrea, Valentina (2019-05-01). "Moratorium or waithood? Forms of time-taking and the changing shape of youth".
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