The Youngest Adult?

Laura Zone 5 · #21 02/27/13, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by RamblinRoseRanc

I know what you mean. By the time I was 20, I had been a mother for four years and a wife for three. I ran the household and took care of daughter. My 20 year old? Still has to be nagged to do chores (but works her butt off at work), is just now dating for the first time and really has no desire to want to learn to drive.

I think some of us are just born more mature.....

I do agree that if you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to have a beer first. 21 would be a good age for both.

By the time I was 20 I had been on my own 4 years.
Paying rent, bills, car pmt, insurance, the whole lot.
Worked 2 jobs, most of the time.

I am so thankful that my kids never had to live like this.

belladulcinea · #22 02/27/13, 04:35 PM

I was married at 18 and have been married for 40 years, my in-laws were married when she was barely 18 and he was 36 during the depression, he would have been labeled a predator when they were dating.

My parents were married young and celebrated 50 years. I really do believe that it's societal concepts now days that has done this. People married young for years and years! Both sets of my grandparents married at 16 and one at 18, they celebrated 50 years and 65 years of marriage before they passed away.

When I got out of the house I knew how to run a household and my parents took no guff off of any of us. When I got engaged, my parents said it's time to find a full time job, so I did and I even had a curfew while we were engaged! I have a friend who did everything for their children, made the rode nice and smooth, it took the military for one and he has worked his way up through the ranks, their dd depends on daddy to get things done and the other will always need their help due to some issues which is different from the other too. She was a bit blind to the whys until I asked her what she was doing at 17......she was married to her highschool sweetie running a household.

**highlands** · #23 02/27/13, 04:48 PM

You mean I have to grow up now!?!