Well that settles it
Legally speaking, it’s 18. But if you chat to people in their twenties and beyond you’re likely to find that many don’t feel like actual grown-ups.
Scientists suggest that this is because in your twenties, you’re not a full-on adult. They say that you don’t become an adult until you reach your thirties. That’s not an excuse to stop doing your laundry or paying taxes. Officially, you are an adult the day you turn 18.Professor Peter Jones, from Cambridge University, said: ‘What we’re really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd.Advertisement
‘I guess systems like the education system, the health system and the legal system make it convenient for themselves by having definitions. ‘I think the system is adapting to what’s hiding in plain sight, that people don’t like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.More:
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