 the suburbs almost as much written about as Madison Avenue and just as much in need of reflection like Madison Avenue life in the suburbs has its good moments and others not so good discouraged disgruntled techno they're glad to be here remember so they join the stream of family life in the suburbs soon to become part of its familiar sights soon to absorb its familiar sounds these are what red book means by its young adults people in a certain living situation with particular interests and particular goals these young adults begin to discover red book about the time they apply for their marriage license start life in their own homes have their first baby take out their first loan and they stay with red book through their busiest years as red book sees them they're an energetic lot a carefree life even though so suddenly plunged into family life as the babies start coming they usually decide to concentrate on their houses with a woman staying home to learn new ways to run a household where it soon dawns on her that she could use a little expert help while the kids are young many of the mothers try to stay at home which isn't always so easy either when it's good to have other young adults to talk to wherever they go there's usually a baby nearby and about the time the parents think their children have them hypnotized they give a party and bring the kids any magazine written for young adults and matching their busy lives is bound to be lively full of things to talk about varied and warm to miss a single new home making idea they're busy just making choices and welcome solid information in concise form it takes a while for a young couple to realize all they're in for when they buy a house or when they have a baby and when they buy a house and have a baby though hardly realizing it they come into their purchasing stage and are often a wild non-stop ride spending world reflected in the windows of the suburban shopping centers where they go to buy they've been studying shopping centers because the people who created the suburbs are young adults and the shopping centers are built in their image selling to young adults demands a new kind of marketing for these young adults the shopping centers have built fountains commissioned statues put in restaurants and freestanding stairways they've included banks loan offices rental plans plant nurseries and places to buy building materials the shopping centers see these young adults as people whose homes are always in need of expansion people who buy in large quantities and truck it away in their cars it's a big market to help people find their cars the centers have enlisted the children they've put in shopmobiles to help them cover the ground they've added banks of storage blockers miles of checkout counters and endless rows of carts carts rolling down the malls at south dale at northland at gulfgate sunrise and east point at hillsdale in california these young adults shopping with the same determination that led them to the suburbs in the first place are the goingest part of a nation on wheels living by the automobile the first young adults in the age of the push button the rest of life in suburbia shopping has a family flavor these busy families make the shopping centers look young and colorful they have a let's go see quality that brings crowds to community events and promotions whom the young adults have always at hand there's plenty to do and see while his family shops a boy can catch a fish ride the rides go to the circus visit the center zoo and have his hair cut and if that doesn't tire him out his mother can put him in the center's nursery school or he can get paint on his shirt see his friends and wear himself out on the bars since these young adults seem to be able to outlast their children they stash them away at a neighbor's house and go back to the center for more this is the life young adults lead summed up recently in a single phrase and dramatized by red book in major shopping centers all over the country for more than two years red book had been working with merchant associations in shopping centers studying young adults when the easy living promotion was presented almost every store joined in the first center-wide promotion in the history of marketing book could develop a successful selling program for young adults it had to get out and see them many different ways it had to get to know them so well that it could become a magazine solely for them what are young adults like from an editor's point of view well they're not so much high brows or low brows as wrinkled brows they're serious and no wonder to give these serious young adults the substance they want to build a durable relationship with each reader red book edits for one person at a time having established a personal relationship with its readers red book then talks to them so that they recognize their own living situations in its pages i wonder whether we could be happy in a place like that when we brought the baby home i thought billy looked awfully worried i've got a boy just like you comes home from school always asking questions i remember the first time my daughter asked me about god on strike for months if that ever happened to us i don't know what my husband would do just as the realities of family life are thoroughly woven into red book so are the realities of community life many young adults come to the suburbs as x apartment letters so what about the roads the schools will somebody please explain what a fond issue is red books editors have to keep learning and analyzing without too much crystal ball gazing red books editors have to keep an eye to the future there is a whole new generation coming soon to be young adults a bigger than ever market of people who have a history of their own who remember all the way back to eisenhower who probably never saw their mother use a ringer think automobiles or household appliances and have reserved seats on the next rocket to leave the earth right now you can ride along with the happy ghost spending buy it now young adults of today ride with the young adults who are buying 70 percent of all homes sold swing into the orbit of more than two and a half million families right now with the only mass magazine aimed exclusively at young adults