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Smiljana: So emerging adulthood is a stage in people's lives where they aren't yet completely independent of their parents or guardians, and they are moving towards independence, but they haven't quite gotten there yet.

Mohammad: Some people, might take longer for them to be completely independent and transition to adulthood, because they might have a job for themselves and make money, but they're still in their parents' house.

Smiljana: My best friend, right out of high school, she had to move out to college. She just had to grow up very quickly. So she went to college by herself. And now, she's moved out in her house. She's not even 20, lives in a house with her husband and her dogs. I think that's very fast. I don't think I could do that ever.

Mohammad: My friend, he was 17 years old when he moved to a different country by himself. And he started working and started learning the language, and those things that usually, people around his age wouldn't do. So I think that's pretty much a very fast transition to adulthood, because you're, all of a sudden, becoming independent, totally.

Smiljana: My brother, he goes more slowly through the emerging adulthood stage. He just kind of does-- he has a stable job, but he still lives with our parents. And he's kind of relying on them to do for the household and stuff like that.

Mohammad: And I have another friend who's pretty much in his parents' house. But he works. And he's slowly trying to move out of the house and have his own life. But I think that's pretty much a very slow transition.

Diana: Right now, I don't have a job. I don't know how to live the world outside of the house. But maturity-wise, yes, I would consider myself adult. But living on my own, I'm not really there yet.

Smiljana: I think to be an adult is to be able to take care of yourself and others financially, emotionally, all kinds of things like that. And I think that I'm not there yet, because I still live with my parents. And I know there's a lot of people out there that have become adults. They take care of themselves. They have the car notes. They live in an apartment.

Mohammad: I don't know what-- I think maybe three years until I fully transition to my adulthood. But I don't know. Right now, I want to move out of the house, but my dad's like, oh, you have to wait. You have to basically have your degree or something, education ready, and have everything set so you can move out of the house so you're able to support yourself. But I'm saying, no, I have to move out of the house and get a job so I have experiences and be ready for challenges and stuff. But my dad disagrees. So yeah, I think it might take a while.

Diana: The factors could be the environment that you're surrounded by, what they're used to, or the people around them, how they taught them to be, how they taught them to live, and go out there and be adults, or rather than keeping them in their house, and just waiting for that right time to let them go.

Smiljana: I think it depends on family, income, sometimes, where you are, where you live.