Hear hear! I agree completely. Although I think the existence of an "extra" stage of development is true for many people, I don't think it makes them (us) any less adult than the people who decide to get married, buy a house, and have kids right out of college. What would be more accurate is a renaming of the "adulthood" category, and having the concept of adulthood combining "odyssey" and "the stage previously known as adulthood".

Also, just because we're wandering doesn't mean we're directionless. Sometimes it feels that way, but I think it stems from an ability to try out all these different things that our parents didn't have the opportunity to, culturally as well as financially. It's also a matter of trying out careers or environments in order to cross them off the list of how you want to spend the rest of your life. If the average person changes jobs 6 times in his/her life (or whatever the current statistic is), why are people in their 20s (possibly) stigmatized by doing the same? We have the added bonus of trying out new things in new places, even foreign countries; I think this outweighs having a spouse, 2.3 kids and a white picket fence by the age of 25. Society, though, does not seem to agree. Hopefully this will change at some point.

Apologies for the rambling, but I can definitely relate to this subject.. ;)