Jason is considered to be in the emerging/young adulthood stage due to his age, which means his physical maturity and reproductive growth are leveling off and ending. In this stage, the frontal lobe is not fully developed and the “pruning” process is happening in which synapses that are not being used are eliminated and those that are used remain. The five features of emerging adults consist of identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling-in-between and age of possibilities. Jason has a firmer sense of his sexual preference even though he knows all the consequences, he has stable and secure housing, and he tries his best to be a good role model and guardian to his younger sister because their parents never showed them that. Although
