There are many people who have different ideas about the most influential persons.  Some people think that the family of young people have greater effect on them, and others feel that it is their friends who is influential for their decision in the life.   In my opinion, family members influence an adult person more than their parents, from my experience. 

 

   First of all, young adult is immature adult.  It means a person who have right to vote and are admitted to exert their right as an adult peron in their country but have immature experience as an adult person.  In Japan, my country,  we are given the right to elect representative of statesman in the government when we attain the age of 20 year-old but we cannot be a candidate before we become 25 years old, which means, I guess it is not until we are twenty five years old, our society don't admit us as an well-experienced person. Therefore, I would like to define young adult as the person whose age is from twenty to twenty five years old.

 

  Some people might think the most influencial person for these immature adult people is their friends.  They might pay attention to the long time college students spend with their friends and young workers' financal independence on their parents.  However, in both of people, I think that parents' influence is massive.  It is because now in Japan, few college students pay their tuition fee and living expense  by themselves.  I also depended on my parents' financial support when I was a college students. Although I did part time job and live alone, my life was under the protection of my parents.    Like me,  most of college students could not go to college without their parents.

 

  The young workers under twenty five year old also depend on their parents or other family members.  Now in Japan, there are lots of young people who works but do not live alone and depend on their parents money for living expense.  I would like to judge that for those who live alone and lead independent life for themselves, their family is more influencial.   In workplace, they are forced to be engaged in hard work that they are not familiar with.  According to my friends' talk, there are few workers who are as young as them and might be able to be friends with easily.   They do not have much time with their close friends, now they become workers.  Thus, such kind of workers I guess, will seek the most nearest and experienced adults, their parents, advice.  Young people also know better than think that their friends, the same generation people  would give them cleverer decision than their parents, since they know well that their friends have less responsibility to their advice than their parents.

 

  From these analysis of the relationship between young adult and their parents, in the aspects of financial supports and their mature experience and reliability, I conclude it is their family, especially parents that are more influential to young adults.