Greenblatt Mcnaull: Article Analysis

When is a person really considered an adult? When they’re 18 or when they have become responsible for themselves. In my opinion, A person typically has become an adult when they have fully matured, when they have become responsible for themselves, and become financially stable. I believe this because in most cases people who are dependent on others financially and physically aren’t responsible. If someone who isn’t matured and cannot be serious in certain situations is considered an adult then that is wrong to me. Why should someone who laughs at situations that should be taken seriously be considered an adult? How is someone who depends on mom cooking dinner every night considered a responsible person?

Taking on milestones at an early age like 15,18, or 21 is an achievement. Someone who lives with mom and can barely keep a job to feed their kids isn’t. “I had reached three of the five milestones by the age of 25: financial independence, leaving home, and finishing school… I pay my bills, I pay my rent, I have a handle in my finances, I am employed, and I am following my career.” (Scaccia, 7). In some cases an 18 year old will …show more content…
“But McNaull, now 36, still bristles at the memory of something he wasn’t allowed to do at 23: Go down to the airport counter and rent a car. “I’d been in police pursuits at more than 100 mph,” he says, “and yet they still wouldn’t rent me a car.” (Greenblatt, 1) Is this really fair? No, in fact it isn’t. In the government today things are really unfair. It seems to be that it is fair that the person who is risking their lives everyday to keep things safer in our neighborhoods cannot drive a rental car. An adult that is responsible enough to help others cannot pay and borrow a