“It’s interesting, my mom is a consumer behavior researcher and professor, and we’ve had so many conversations about how our generation is the first where the societal norms have been completely shifted,” Vérité said. “Before, the benchmarks for meaning were so solid. You knew what they were: you went to school, you got a job, you got married, you started a family, you bought a house. There were these benchmarks for transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. And, for us, none of those things existed. I have no plans to get married or have children.”