{"id":342934,"date":"2025-12-30T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342934\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:25:07","slug":"how-adulthood-differs-between-the-united-states-and-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342934\/","title":{"rendered":"How Adulthood Differs Between the United States and the United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The wonderfully forthright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurence.m.brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Laurence Brown<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/LostinthePond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Lost in the Pond<\/a> explained how adulthood differs between the <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=United+States\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">United States<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=United+Kingdom&amp;\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">United Kingdom<\/a>. Examples include the legal drinking age (21 in the US; 18 in the UK), occupational identity, passport ownership (50% in US; 80% in UK), tax calculation (annually in US; daily in UK), and age of home ownership (US 40; 34 UK).<\/p>\n<p>Being an adult is hard, especially when you\u2019ve lived in more than one country. Here are 7 Ways America treats adulthood very differently to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wonderfully forthright Laurence Brown\u00a0of\u00a0Lost in the Pond explained how adulthood differs between the United States and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-342934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}