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Do you think one should be legally an adult at 21 instead of 18 ?
| Other (Add a comment) | 6 | |
| yes | 10 | |
| 25 should be legally an adult | 9 | |
| 21 should be the legal age of adulthood | 11 | |
| No | 11 | |
| 18 should stay the legal age of adulthood | 30 |
People mature at different rates. I think you should be legally considered an adult when you've proved you can be one. Knowing Western society, it'd probably be another exam. But there are other ways.
Well yeah dappled that is going to be great. Considering how stupid most of the kids are most of them are going to be in mom and dads house till age 30. As well as that you can be a rock but if you do a poor paying job you probably dont need to be very intelligent.
We cant even get most school kids to pass the casey. The American school system is terrible. I dont think most of these kids want to be stupid but we dont put them in a productive learning Environment. In High-school passing is not as important as sex, drugs and being popular.
Its also important to be popular since if not you get chased, bullied and beaten on. If you have to worry everyday about getting your butt kicked I dont think you can really worry about focusing in class right? No probably not.
As well as that we force most college student to be dependent on grand parents and parents. Since we refuse to count anyone over 18 as an adult they are still considered a dependent and will be treated like such according to college rules.
Its really stupid. I dont think we should consider them legal children at 18 but I think we should at least make it mandatory mom and dad pay for 2 years of college, or make all 18 year olds automatically low income. Unless of course they have a job paying at least 20$ an hour or more somehow.
Well lets see... at age 18 you can vote, serve, get death penalty, and smoke. You don't legally drink till 21. You can't really rent a car or check into a motel till you're 25. And if you go to college the college doesn't recognize you as an independent till you're 23 even if you are.
I think if it's going to be 21 we better get all of the things that come with adulthood.
No. By 14 they're figuring things out. 15, they're struggling to find themselves. By 16 they want to leave their parents and do their own thing.
18 should stay the legal age.
Being 18 or 21 does not make you an adult. Being an adult makes you an adult. Being 18 or 21 only makes you legally responsible for your actions, or being able to enter into a contract. It has nothing to do with being an adult. There are 70 year old people who are not an adult. For that matter if you are 10 years old and you commit an adult crime, you should be tried as an adult and do adult time.
I don't think there should be one set age of adulthood. You don't magically metamorphose into an adult at a certain age. Your "adultness" develops on a continuum. By age 17 most people are as competent as an 18 year old, so to show immense sympathy for a 17 year old but near total apathy for an 18 year old is moronic. That being said, your prefrontal cortex continues to develop well into your 30s and perhaps your 40s, and there are significant differences in maturity between say an 18 year old and a 25 year old.
As I have said in one of my IIN stories, I think it should be determined by a series of tests within a certain age range, say 16-25. When you turn 16, you become eligible to take a certain series of courses and tests to be allowed to participate in the adult activities earlier, and such programs would be available in school curriculums (like Civics 101 for voting, Impulse Control 101 for drinking, Economics 101 for stocks, Driving 101 for obvious reasons). Alternatively, you could wait until you are 25 if you find them too hard or you're a dropout, where you would be granted your full range of adult rights.
This would not be accurate, you cant determine how responsible a person is by how smart they appear on paper. My brother got all A and I only ever could get B but if we look at my reasoning skills they are far better in most situations. They never had a lot of common sense but clearly he should be ahead based on grades. So that simply is not logical and a very very misguided belief.
I never said that the courses would pure paperwork. School grades are more about intelligence than self mastery, so you could have the maturity of a 10 year old and still do well. It would have some controlled, hands on experience that deal with reasoning skills and control (i.e. EQ instead of intelligence) to prep them for the adult world.
16 would be just fine.
I was, for most purposes considered and treated like a responsible adult since age 14-15.
I think 18 is a good age to finally be considered mature. I guess I just don't like change :/
No.I'm 19 and i think im hella responsible and anyways dosent matter how high you raise it teens are gonna do what they want before and beyond 18
what i said and it didn't appear in my post is i guess 30 should be a real adult ?
I don't think they should raise it only because my 18th birthday is coming up in 2 months. hehe :)
I think it should be 20, that's when the 'teen' ends. Also we're all living longer, so they should extend the age of everything.
I'm 18 so I'm technically an adult, but I still feel like a kid. The only good thing about this age is that you can buy 18 rated video games.
Feeling like a kid has nothing to do with being a kid, and I mean that in the truest sense, age/law notwithstanding. Saying you feel like a kid is meaningless because no one really knows how anybody but themselves feel. We can't know what it's like to be anyone else, kid or not, therefore it follows that we can't know if we "feel" like a kid. What we are able to know is whether or not other people find our behaviours mature. So you might be a kid in somebody's eyes, but feel yourself to be an adult. And although you might feel like a kid because you still like having fun and goofing off, you might have the mindset of the average fully grown adult and not know it, but just happen to be open about interests that some might label childish. So let other people tell you whether or not you're mature. Personally, I think you say you feel like a kid not because you are one, but because you WANT to be one. It's a crisis most young adults go through.
yea but it doesn't make since to be legally an adult at 18 ,since there is teen after eight so one is STILL a teen .
twenty should be the begining of YOUNG adulthood like 20 -29 young adults since one is still in his/her twenties ,and i guess should be a real adult
But equating teenagehood with adolescence is completely arbitrary. The development of humans doesn't conform to numbers, or more accurately, the base-ten names we chose to give them. Just because the numbers we chose to name "teens" roughly equate to the end of adolescence doesn't mean 19 is more adolescent than 20. You CAN be a teenaged adult because teenaged doesn't mean immature, it just means aged 13-19. 18 and 19 year olds are, of course, still teenagers, but they're adult teenagers by law in some sovereign states, not adolescent teenagers.
Moreover, individuals rarely fit into averages. I think some kind of a maturity test would make more sense than an age of majority, since everyone's different.
It already is. You cannot drink or buy a handgun in the U.S. until you are 21.
I guess adulthood means one is no longer a teenager or a child ,so over 25 is real adulthood and before that is young adulthood and before it is teenhood ,so I don't think 18 -19 are adults , they are still teens , okay they attend college and are responisble but there is a teen after 8 and a teen after 9 so adulthood should be after young adulthood ,after 25 , in my opinion .
Where I live, a young adult is supposed to be 18-34. 35+ is a mature adult. Girls physically become women at an average age of 15, and boys become men at an average age of 17, so obviously when we talk about the age of majority we're speaking about emotional maturity, and in my opinion, the concept of appending an arbitrary number makes no sense. People mature at different times. Some people are forced to grow up quickly while others seem to never fully mature and stay childish and irresponsible well into what we call adulthood. I'd say the age we choose should be the age at which the majority of citizens are emotionally and socially mature, which might be around 27-35 or so for most cultures.
UH NO. Im already 18 so if they changed that then I wouldnt get to by lighters or work at an olive garden D:
Your brain hasn't stopped developing until you're 25 - even though teenagers think they know it all already!