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There’s one thing about parenting; it never stops. Once you become a parent you remain a parent the rest of your life.

So the end of your child’s adolescence is not the end of parenting; it only marks the transition to a new set of changes and challenges. But when is adolescence over, and what comes next? And how does parenting alter?

Adolescence ends in the early to mid twenties when a young person becomes psychologically, socially, and economically independent.

Psychologically, there is an authentic sense of individual identity – assuming one’s fitting definition of self. Socially, there is a sense of autonomy – determination to adhere to one’s own beliefs and follow one’s own agenda. And economically there is the reliance on financial self-support – commitment to earn one’s way without the need for parental assistance.

via Parenting after the adolescent becomes adult. | Psychology Today.