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When are you an adult? - Coggle Diagram
When are you an adult?
Article 1
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Systems responsible for logical reasoning mature by the time people are 16, but those involved in self-regulation are still developing `in young adulthood. This is why 16-year-olds are just as competent as adults when it comes to granting informed medical consent, but still immature in ways that diminish their criminal responsibility
prefrontal regions [of the brain] that are important for planning ahead, anticipating the future consequences of one’s decisions, controlling impulses, and comparing risk and reward. Indeed, some brain regions and systems do not reach full maturity until the early or mid-20s.
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Article 4
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Increased numbers of individuals attending college and with the tremendous rise in the cost of education and the loans necessary for many, young people are also remaining dependent on parents financially far longer, often leaving them less likely to perceive themselves as adults.
“Emerging adults”—whom Jeffrey Arnett defines as individuals between 18 and 25—need opportunities to make their own choices, whether that’s about their major, what courses to take, their social lives or summer plans, and they need practice in making mistakes and recovering, and in owning the outcomes of their choices.
Parents who are using technology (calls, Skype, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc.) to micromanage lives from afar may be thwarting the timely passage to adulthood.
adulthood can be either clear or diffuse, depending on whether a culture chooses to offer all the privileges and responsibilities at one distinct age or spread them across time.
Article 3
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Poor decision-making, the hallmark of many teenagers’ existence, has its roots in biology.
Licensing procedures require considerably more training and proven skill before new drivers are let loose on public roads.
Article 2 :
The 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971, established 18 as the
minimum voting age for both state and federal elections.
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The contemporary U.S. military is an all-volunteer force and only a small fraction of the population serve.
Indeed, in modern America 18-year-old voting has become unmoored from one of its more important original justifications, which was matching the minimum age for draft eligibility (itself also an arbitrary line).