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.
Do you think they should raise the age of adulthood to 21 ?
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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.
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I'm 21 and I feel like a kid, too.
That doesn't mean I am one.
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
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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.