1 June 2024 By Charlie Buckland, BBC News Ellie Harris Ellie Harris and her papa, who was married with 3 kids by the time he was 25 Get married, buy a home and have kids. That’s how most of our momsanddads did it and they mostlikely believe other individuals needto too. However a TikTok pattern with more than 27 million views has highlighted that attaining “traditional” life turningpoints is endingupbeing progressively out of reach for young individuals, with lotsof pressing them aside till lateron in life. In these videos, young individuals do side by side contrasts of their momsanddads at a particular age versus them at that age now. Often the momsanddads are in the realestate market and married with kids, whereas things are extremely various for their own kids. TikTok: Young individuals on the requirement to hold-up ‘adulting’ But Ellie Harris, 25, whose momsanddads were married with 3 kids at her age, stated individuals undervalue that it was a “completely various time”. She is motivating others to identify their own wins, whether that is leaving a task where they are dissatisfied or taking up running, and not to compare with the generations before them. In a researchstudy the charity Relate discovered that 95% of Gen Z and 88% of millennials felt there are particular life turningpoints that society oughtto muchbetter acknowledge, including running a marathon, leaving an unhealthy relationship or stopping a task. Gen Z individuals tend to be anybody born inbetween 1997 and 2012 while millennials are born inbetween around 1980 to1997 The Resolution Foundation justrecently stated that 18-34 year olds in 1997 were on average in a couple in their own home whereas today, individuals in that group are living at home with their momsanddad
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