For most people never.
Petulant middle-aged children as far as the eye can see with few exceptions.
When they decide to
Maybe even a bit more every time they decide to.
Some bits of adulting are harder than other bits
When they start acting like it.
Which (to me) mostly means taking responsibility for their actions and taking care of the responsibilities they have.
Some never become adults, becoming an adult to me is self-realization. That you have the ability to think and make decisions with input on your own. That you are self-capable of change in your life. It’s accepting you have responsibilities outside of just yourself. I feel hat’s part of it.
A hat is definitely part of it!
A good, stylish hat helps certainly.
Was about to say something similar. There’s no real moment. It’s not turning a certain agem it’s when you realize you are a sum of everything you’ve done, your faults and your wins. When you realize how silly you were as a teenager and are glad you’ve moved on. No date, but you’ll know when you already are.
When they consistently act like one. When they take full responsibility for themself and their actions.
When there’s a bump in the night and you’re the one responsible to go find out what it was
For me, it’s when you start paying utility bills out of your own pocket. So even if you’re living with your parents/relatives but you are old enough to be contributing with household expenses, you’re now an adult.
What about all the adults without jobs or parents whose labor primarily stays in the home? I think a stay at home parent with no income is still an adult.
I think it’s when you decide it, plenty of children walking around in grown bodies paying bills but also letting the whims of the world carry them with their current never taking a stand and steering their own lives. To be an adult is both a choice to be free from undue influence but also to be fully responsible for your own actions.
I’ve thought about this a lot since the prior social markers are less useful these days. For me it’s being someone who has the resources and abilities to navigate the things needed for day to day life.
To me having the bar be some outside goal seems so strange? So if a person is disabled and can’t “earn a living” or have the ability to navigate “the things needed for day to day life” whatever that means since it’s different for everyone, remains a child? To me this is a very dangerous way of defining adulthood and anyone denied the opportunity to earn money/gain skills is subjugated to being a child? Historically speaking this would make nearly all women children until the 1970s. Adulthood is a mindset
First of all, this is a personal position not something I’m trying to enshrine into law.
Second of all the ability to recognize that you need help/assistance, actually ask, and be receptive to receiving it is a large part of my reason for including that. It shows a level of maturity to go through that process and yes I think that people who don’t do it are child-ish.
EXACTLY MIDNIGHT LOCAL TIME ON THE CALENDAR DATE EIGHTEEN YEARS SUBSEQUENT TO THEIR BIRTH AS RECORDED ON A LEGAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE
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When you act against your better interests and act in the interests of others.
In north america its when you realize you are always miserable and none of this is what you planned for or went to school for
“It’s relative. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!”
depends on the country.
That is a very subjective question with no right or wrong answer. If we’re talking legally, generally on their 18th birthday. But in a more practical sense, well I guess it happens sort of gradually. Some might say when they internally feel like an adult. Some might say when they behave like an adult. Some might say when they have adult responsibilities like a job or a family.
