When do you officially become an adult? Unfortunately, there is no real \u201cofficially\u201d in our modern society. You can drive at 16, vote at 18, drink at 21 and rent a car at 25, but none of those things feel like real rites of passage. In most states, you can get married at 18, but we\u2019re waiting longer and longer to settle down, with the average American tying the knot around 34 years old. So \u2026what age are we actually an adult?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new survey<\/a>\u00a0by Avocado Green Brands found that about 53 percent of Americans say 18 is the age of adulthood, a little under half say they didn\u2019t feel like an adult until they hit 30. So, clearly, it depends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real takeaway is that most respondents felt like age is only a number when it comes to being a grown-up. Nearly 80 percent agreed that it\u2019s actions, not age, that make a grown-up. It\u2019s less about how old you are than checking off some real life milestones that make you feel more independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Topping that list is living on your own. 30 percent of respondents said that was what made them \u201cfeel like\u201d an adult. Buying a house was right behind at 28 percent, and having your own bank account was tied with getting married at 27 percent. Having kids and doing grocery shopping was tied at 26 percent, and doing your own taxes and paying for your own phone plan are tied at 26 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, yes, Americans are pretty evenly split on when you become an adult. But there is a lot more general agreement that it\u2019s less a matter of when <\/em>than it is a matter of how<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See the rest of the top 30 below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When do you officially become an adult? Unfortunately, there is no real \u201cofficially\u201d in our modern society. You can drive at 16, vote at 18, drink at 21 and rent a car at 25, but none of those things feel like real rites of passage. In most states, you can get married at 18, but …<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youngadventists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}BY<\/em>\u00a0RELEVANT<\/a> | Original Article Here<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"