When Do Kids Become Adults?

What are happening with our kids these days? They are exposed with many adults’ materials and kids these days become adults in a shorter period compare to old time. So, what experts in this area say about when kids become adults considering all the influences?

Biologically, it's happening earlier; emotionally, it seems to be happening later. These days puberty happens in females between ages 8 and 14, between 9 and 15 in males.

A generation ago, when you turned 18, you were ready to face the world outside your home and you were on your own. But now we see kids in the Boomerang Generation coming home to Mom and Dad after college, hoping for a hand with bills, laundry, meals and other responsibilities of adulthood. It's cute for a while, less adorable the older the kid gets.