Human Growth and Development / Unit 12 HGD 1683 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trajectories and Markers of Adulthood
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The idea
Young adults define adulthood by personal accountability, independent decisions and financial independence rather than by milestones such as marriage.
In practice
A twenty-four-year-old who pays her own rent and makes her own choices calling herself an adult, though unmarried.
Where people slip
Trajectories are predicted pathways from behaviour in context; the lengthened social clock allows many of them.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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