Growing up

My sociology class ended today. For our final project, my group gave a short presentation on adulthood. We talked about how the U.S. and other societies define what it means to be an adult and how the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood are conferred on individuals crossing that threshold.

Here are a couple of videos that we included in our presentation: "What does it mean to be an adult" and "Emerging adulthood."

Wikipedia has a lot of information on the topic; start with "age of majority" (and check out the links in the See Also section of that entry).