Milestones In 18 Years

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Growing up with our parents always wanting to know everything that we are up too, we all wish that we could be 18 years-old already. In the U.S. turning 18 years-old, we are all adults and we can make our own choices, we have gained our freedom from our parents and in between we go through different milestone so that we can almost reach our independence. Like I mention before we all go through different milestones to reach our independence. I conducted two interviews and asked them several questions about their independence and still developing.
My first interview was with T, and I asked her how she gained her independence from her parents and she mention that she barely has a relationship with her parents, one because her mother lives in a different country and two because her father and her don’t have the best relationship, they argue and bicker a lot, so she made the decision to move out of her dads house and she was only 19 years old. According to our text books it is very common that parents and their child bicker now and then, which means- “repeated, petty arguments (more nagging than fighting) about routine, day-to-day concerns such as cleanliness, clothes, chores, and schedules” (10.2.1). T also mentioned the
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Comparing the information from our book and the interviews it could that you as a person wanting to prove to our parents that we can do things on our own and we can be independent, like for example both A and T moving out and having to learn a lot of things on their own. This type of research could be helpful to understand how people gain their own impendence and what it means to them, I think there could be more questions to be ask and there could be more ways to do the research by maybe conducing a longitude research on adolescents to see the different ways they have all gained their

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