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.
Do you think they should raise the age of adulthood to 21 ?
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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.