Changing Adulthood To The Age Of 25, By Lucy Wallis And Frank Furedi

Changing adulthood to the age of 25 will only hinder and further create a society that accepts laziness and discourages independence from a young age. The article " Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood?" by Lucy Wallis and Frank Furedi gives contrasting ideas about the opinions on both sides of the argument, weather we should change the age of adulthood to 25 and what implications we may see by this change. We now live in a time where it's ok to give up and if you hit difficult situations your parents will take care of it. The change of adulthood to 25 is an awful solution because it allows parents to now longer hold their kids accountable, withdraw from teaching to be independent from a young age, and commonly seeing more and more children raising children.
I believe the children were never guided properly by parents showing them the value of independence, being able to take care of things by themselves and how they can apply this knowledge later making them ready for adulthood after 18. As Frank Furedi says, " There is a loss of the aspiration for independence and striking out on your own. When I went to university it would have been a social death to have seen with your parents, whereas now it's the norm" ( Furedi 4). Some solutions to this could be parents making their kids have responsibilities like paying rent, washing their own things ,and helping towards paying bills. These are simple things that would prevent so many kids in their late teens from not being prepared for life without their