It seems to me like a very arbitrary distinction between childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Even if everyone "came of age" at the same time in their lives, I think of it more as crossing an imaginary line than a wholesale change in the nature of their being.
Do you have to be fully matured to exit adolescence? I don't think so. If adolescence is a cultural idea - and I think it's better viewed as a cultural idea than a biological one - then it ends at the time we become accepted as adults in society, which in my society is 18.
What age does adolescence end at?
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It seems to me like a very arbitrary distinction between childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Even if everyone "came of age" at the same time in their lives, I think of it more as crossing an imaginary line than a wholesale change in the nature of their being.
Do you have to be fully matured to exit adolescence? I don't think so. If adolescence is a cultural idea - and I think it's better viewed as a cultural idea than a biological one - then it ends at the time we become accepted as adults in society, which in my society is 18.