Becoming an adult is a life cycle transition, it involves the passage through several objective statuses, typically assumed to involve the completion of schooling, the establishment of a residence apart from the parental home, the achievement of economic self-sufficiency, marriage and/or cohabitation with a spouse or partner, the legal status of emancipation, the ability to vote and serve in the military, for most, the entry into full- or part-time productive work and for many a phase of sexual reproduction