What Does It Mean To Be An Adult Today

Age of Responsibility The question that most people ask themselves is at what age is someone an adult? The answer that most people give is at the age of 18. In my opinion, i think a person should be an adult when they are mature enough to act like an adult. When teenagers turn eighteen they automatically think that they are adults. I would consider them adults, when they know how to make the right decisions in their life, and they are capable of having their own family and providing for them. Although, they are supposed to be the ones that will have to consider themselves adults. In the article “What Does it Mean to be an Adult Today?”, they tell us that the change to adulthood is defined by five milestones. Those five milestones are: Completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying, and last but not least having a child. In this article, they provide several reasons, of when a teenager now becoming an adult, should actually be considered an adult. I will be explaining what the real age should be when someone is an adult, and also when a teenager now adult should consider themselves and look at themselves as an adult. In the article “What Does it Mean to be an Adult Today?”, they tell us that …show more content…
Also, that they reach the five milestones. That they are mature enough to be able to provide for a family, and that they have a stable job. Just because they turn 18 years old, they are an adult now, first we all have to complete the five milestones in order to consider ourselves as adults. There is no rush to become an adult, it might be a long process but it's worth it. Why? Because if we consider ourselves adults when we still aren't, then people are going to expect a lot from us, that are adult responsibilities, or adult things, and what are we going to do? We simply won't be able to do some of those things they expect from us