Are We Grown Up Yet?

Are you a grown-up or still an adolescent? In the United States, when can young people be treated as adult by others? According to sociologist, Tom Smith (2003), there is actually no factor that proclaims the beginning of “adulthood”. On the opposing, his survey results where he used a representative sample of 1 398 people above the age of 18, propose that becoming and adult is a gradual process that involves a number of transitions.

According to the survey, the single most vital change in claiming adult standing is the completion of schooling. But, other changes are also important; Smith’s respondents linked adult standing to financially gaining the ability to support a family, taking a full-time job, no longer to live with parents, and finally to get married and becoming a mother or a father. In other words, almost everybody in the United States believe that a person who has done all these things as an adult.

At what age these changes are likely to be completed? Averagely, it is by the age of 26 according to the respondents in this study. But, this number tells an important difference based on social class. People who do not go to college commonly finish school by the age of around 20 and an independent living, a full-time job, marriage as well as parenthood may follow in a year or two. People from more privileged backgrounds are likely to go to college and even go on to graduate or professional school, delaying the process of becoming an adult for as long as 10 years, past the age of 30.  

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