After reading the article "What Is It About 20-Something?" which discusses the facts and causes about the 20s' emerging adulthood, I felt that the progressing of our society would contribute to people's ideas of adulthood. Considering my parents' generation, as the country was facing the economic depression, young people had to take responsibility for their family and enter the workplace early as they were teenagers who just like my parents did completing their milestones in their early 20s. However, in my generation, we don't have to complete the milestones in rush because we are born in the world that we take things for granted. My parents believe that I should live in a better life and earn more experiment, so they send me to America and afford my studying. I am 20 years old but I don't earn any working experiment because I can't work in America as an international student, I have to depend on my parents support even though I want to be independent, and being independent is a sign of emerging adulthood.
Parental and social overprotecting is not the only factor that results in the 20s being self-indulgence and growing up late; the other factor I believe according to the article is people's expectation. In our generation, we are more concerned about our fulfillment rather than the milestones we have to achieve. We have high expectation for experiencing different kinds of life but sometimes that expectation would against the reality that we can't have it all as we are emerging to the 30s. The factors for young people emerging adulthood late are so complex that we have to figure them out sooner or later.
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