{"id":21484,"date":"2025-01-10T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/insurance\/18-is-no-longer-an-adult-life-happens\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:22:32","slug":"18-is-no-longer-an-adult-life-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=21484","title":{"rendered":"18 Is No Longer an \u201cAdult\u201d \u2013 Life Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When your 18<sup style=\"font-size: .6em;\">th<\/sup> birthday comes, it isn\u2019t like someone magically waves a magic wand and you become an adult. Of course\u2014legally\u2014you can do things you couldn\u2019t before: vote, sign contracts\u2014well really a whole range of things without parental consent. But, when we asked 2,000 people across generations when they actually felt like an adult, we got the true answer: 27.<\/p>\n<p>This comes from Life Happens new survey \u201cAdulthood Across Generations,\u201d that was conducted by Talker Research. They surveyed 2,000 Americans equally split among adult Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some high-level results, but you can find out a lot more of what the different generations are thinking with our <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehappens.org\/research\/adulting-across-the-generations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey research page here<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehappens.org\/press\/adulthood-across-generations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your 18th birthday comes, it isn\u2019t like someone magically waves a magic wand and you become an adult. 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