[Source: The New Insecurity: The End of Standard Job and Family by Jerald Wallulis, © 1998 State University of New York Press]

"There is a sense that the long-term career ladders and well established professional career pathways are no longer there and that loyalty to a company, business, or state organization no longer pays off."

"Marriage appears to be in a similarly precarious situation, for to expect and plan upon permanency appears tantamount to exposing oneself to disappointment, if not even to danger."

"The facts of employment and marriage are superseded in importance as life planning goals, it will be argued, by the struggle to achieve employability and marriageability in the present and to preserve them in the future."