Legal age aside, what does being an adult mean to you these days? How would you define it?

In my opinion being adult means being ready, willing, and able to take responsibility for yourself, your actions, and your choices. Being adult does not necessarily have anything to do with having children or taking care of them, unless one of your choices was to have children. I've known people who were adults (not just legally, but in their behavior) who chose not to have children.

Being adult may or may not mean making do with what you can provide on your own. For example, if for whatever reason an adult loses her or his capability to earn a good living, s/he can make an adult choice to accept someone's offer of help to provide better opportunities for her or his children, than s/he can on her or his own. This is true even if without help the person has enough resources to provide a minimal living for said children.

Being adult has little to do with great general knowledge, or even wisdom. An adult can have minimal schooling, but as long as s/he takes responsibility for choices made, s/he is exhibiting adult behavior. The only age-related part of my definition of adulthood is that of being *able* to take responsibility.

A child frequently is not physically or mentally capable to take care of his or herself in society. Once the child matures enough, and has learned enough to be able to provide for his or her own needs, that person has the potential of becoming an adult. Once that potential has been arrived at, all that remains is having the proper attitude and making the right choices.

Adulthood is to some extent dependent on the environment. Take a typical city man and drop him off in the middle of the jungle, and that person has just been reduced to childhood. He is completely unprepared and unable to take care of himself.

If given enough support, and shown how to care for himself in the new environment, he may quickly learn. Otherwise, he will be at the mercy of that environment, and will likely die rather quickly. The bottom line is that while the definition of adulthood may sound simple and straightforward, when the "fine print" of reality is taken into account, things can become very complicated.

I think being an adult breaks down to a few basic things: 1. Taking responsibility for ones own actions, including indirect consequences. This means taking care of oneself, owning ones own mistakes, and being the primary decision maker in ones own life.2.

Being a citizen. Adults acknowledge the community around them, and act as a citizen of their city, country, and the world.3. Recognition of faults and limitations.

I don't think you need to be some kind of master of the universe, able to navigate all trials, to be considered an adult. But adults know when they are on unsure footing, and when to ask for help. 4.

Growth and the capacity for change. With admitting faults comes the recognition that individuals have an obligation to try to improve themselves and know themselves. Pop culture calls this "self actualizing," but the concept actually began as a real psychological principal.

Unfortunately, I think we have very few adults in the world these days.

I have seen children who were just as "adult" as many people over 18. I would say adulthood mentally is based off of a certain wisdom and knowledge of the world. Sometimes that sort of knowledge is thrust on a person far before they reach what society has deemed "adult".

It's hard to describe just where that line in the sand is in my opinion. Some people are born with an adult mind, some people never obtain it. Physically however, I would define adult as the point in which primary growth is complete.

On average for a female that's 19 and male 21.

An adult is someone who takes responsibility for self and children. Adults move out when they are 18, or they at least contribute somehow, if they stay with their parents. Adults admit it if they break something.

Adults show up when and where they promised to show up. Adults provide for their children and supervise their children and devote time to be with their children. Adults are careful when they drive.

Adults do everything they can to make ends meet on their own, before asking for or accepting any help.

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