18 and Older
18 defines the legal turning point for becoming an adult, but when do your decisions and actions truly reflect what being a mature adult really means? At what point are you qualified to be an adult and face the full repercussions of your behavior? Today, millennials are choosing to wait rather than to jump directly into an “adult life”. While delaying adulthood gives more time for education, Millennials are redefining what adulthood means all together with changing values about marriage, children and modern priorities.
In Kim Parker’s article “Millennials Are Redefining What Adulthood Means” from the New York Times, Room for Debate; based on the state of the economy when millennials were born into, and the struggles they faced with while growing up, this generation is holding back on a few typical adult priorities. Priorities such as marriage, having children, and taking more time to educate themselves and create a better financial footing. They are slower than any other generation to marry and buy a house. Their priority is education and finding financial sustainability to create the life that they want. “The interesting question is what “the life that they want” will look like.”
Just as people born during and after The Greatest Generation began saving, stockpiling and conserving as much as
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