The Age of Responsibility is a really hard topic to discuss. Around the U.S. we have many different ages that determine adulthood. This needs to be discussed about to determine the age of adulthood for all states here in the U.S. because we have so many that we don’t even know what the age of adulthood is anymore. The age of adulthood should be at 21 years old. Why I believe this is the age of adulthood is that we’ve obtained laws at the age of 18 but later matured and adapted to them by the age of 21. But people might say we’ve not matured until the age of 25. According to the author Alan Greenblatt of What is the Age of Responsibility states that “The fact that every person is different and develops at his own pace doesn't make the creation …show more content…
Neuroscientists are clear about that different parts of the brain mature along different timetables.What this means is that many do not reach this at the age of 25 but most people are capable of doing this between the age of 16 and 21. This is important because this proves that scientific research doesn’t always prove that the age of 25 is when we are adults because of our brain or maturity is fully developed there. My point on this part to me seems to be proved because even scientific research always determine …show more content…
At 18 you are beginning to become an adult but later gain more responsibilities as a 21 year old later and handle the drinking age. 18-teen is still part of the teen era and has many more responsibilities to come but after 21 it’s pretty much done. 18 is not yet the drinking age but many 18 year olds in the U.S.have done under age drinking. According to Jack McCardell a former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, points to surveys showing that upwards of 90 percent of young people have had drinks or gotten drunk before turning
The age of responsibility should not be an age such as 18, 16 or 21 because everybody is different and matures at different ages. One’s true responsibility should be when they are at an age where they are fully developed in the brain and mature enough to make their own decisions without an adult. It needs to be a time where they can handle the rights that they are given in adulthood and use them wisely and maturely. Young people have been relying on their parents for their whole lives and some when they leave the house cannot make the right
There are many different regulations and strategies which are used to safeguard young adults and one of these strategies is the recruitment of staff and preventing people who may harm vulnerable people from getting assess to them. for example, the adults barred list. The is a list of people which either has a high risk of harming others or a probable risk of harming others. The people on the list are barred from working in health and social care settings and around vulnerable people. There are many different places where information is received from and this may include the police, courts, or health and social services. all this information is used to decide whether they are at risk of harming vulnerable people in order to decide whether they
It is ironic that how some children are able to present themselves more mature than adults. The youth of the generation is becoming more mature and are developing adult skills faster than ever. People are beginning to wonder about the age of adulthood and how it should be determined. This controversy beleaguers around privileges such as drinking, driving, and voting. According to the article What is the Age of Responsibility by Alan Greenblatt, society determines that a person is an adult through customary rites, legal rights, and one’s responsibilities. However, I believe that the best way to adulthood is shown through one’s obligation for their priorities and work.
Introduction: The legal drinking age in America is 21, in the past it differed by state ranging from 18, 19 to 20. Through the years it’s changed and after the Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 where it went from 18 to 21 and stayed there. Throughout the years it has gone back and forth with discussion.
All the evidence shows that most people become responsible at the age 18. Like in Alan Greenblatt’s “What is the age of responsibility?” tells us how even bad guys are treated like responsible adults at the age 18. Also in Catherine Rampell’s “How old is old enough?” states that the whole world believes 18 is generally the age people become responsible. She also says that 18 year olds were able to vote because of their responsibilities they had on the battlefield. Looking at this I believe that 18 years old is the age at which people become responsible for their
Many people argue that 18 is the age of adulthood, and that adults should have the right to make decisions about alcohol consumption, but the facts prove otherwise. A study by the US Department of Human Health
When do kids become adults? When has the maturity level reached its highest point? When do people become mature? It is commonly debated that you are not mature until you are a “real” adult. The legal age of adulthood in the United States is 18. In comparison, the ages of consent in Europe are between the ages of 14 and 18. As you can see, people believe different ages are qualified for you to be a legal adult. I don’t believe that age is the specific reason for people to become adults. I believe it depends on their maturity level, not their age.
However, being a legal adult doesn’t always go hand in hand with responsibility. Alan Greenblatt, the author of What is the Age of Responsibility, notices a “delayed adulthood,” by pointing out a few reasonable facts (9). One of them being that teens are becoming more dependent on their parents. “Plenty of college grads and dropouts had ‘boomeranged’ back to Mom and Dad’s house,” (9). Therefore, it is inaccurate to claim that an eighteen-year-old might have their whole life planned. This is due to the fact that they might just be fresh out of high school and barely figuring out who they are. However, at the age of twenty the decisions one makes impacts the rest of their life. Therefore, this is the stage in one's life where they get to make their own choices, and become their own person. So to say, they are not a teen anymore, this marks the beginning of
Due to increases in many cases of young irresponsibility it has without a doubt, kids should be classified as adults at age 25. Others have to care because this is our new generation, you are new generation to become the worst generation. As stated the brain achieves full maturity in the early 20's or mid-20's. Also kids driving when the brain is still in progress of maturing could have an effect on their thought process. If no action is taken we have seen many tragedies involving kids and it could get even worse if we can't take
If a child was to hurt themselves you could explain RICE to them (Rest Ice Compression and Elevation)
In the society that we live in today there are laws and restrictions that we have to abide by to maintain order and safety. The Government set age restrictions for many things such as driving, voting, drinking, gambling, films/games, marriage, sex and work but the question that many people ask is why do we need them and are they really necessary? There are positives and negatives to age restrictions as they are there to keep you safe however they control our actions we do in life and when we do them. However, there are many levels of maturity, whether these are right or wrong is a personal opinion. There is no possible way to measure maturity when there are so many contradictions within the law.
Becoming an adult, also known as young adulthood, is a very crucial stage in one’s life. This is the climax of physical and health processes. This is the point in life when we make plans of our futures. It is the time when we think of what life will be like as an adult and make plans for the future. Most importantly, it is when we lay the starting point for developmental changes that we will undergo throughout our lives. An adult is a person who is fully grown or developed. Some people believe that you become an adult when you are 18 years old, other believe you are an adult when you can legally buy and consume alcohol, that is, at age 21 in the United States. Others believe that you are an adult when you are supporting yourself
My attendance in high school was not as high as my teachers may have wanted it to be. I found myself yearning for more and finishing my work too quickly. When I went I tried to soak up as much as I could but it wasn’t really until my college courses that I found that knowledge I wanted and regained a strong desire to attend class. While I have never missed classes unless terribly sick, I have been tardy a handful of times. Since honestly is the best policy I cannot fail to ignore that. Sometimes I was not on time due to work other times I simply left the house later than I expected to. It was not enough times to cause a problem, but it definitely has made me more aware of my punctuality.
Any given age that reaches to their teenage years and left behind their childhood, should be able to prove themselves they are ready or not for certain things that the law prohibits. To be a matured being, one must not fully developed physically, but the mind as well. Only then, someone is ready to take a big step to a life changing event or access to things that usually deemed innapropriate for children.
Maturity is a quality that is admirable for anyone, at any age to have. Perhaps that is because it has to be learned over time and is not something that one naturally has as a character trait. When I think of maturity, I usually think of adults who know how to conduct themselves. Adults are a symbol of maturity-- this goes back to the etymology of the word- which stems from the Latin word maturitas, maturitatis, f. In Latin, the word means ripeness, which would make sense because adults are fully developed. Although the literal meaning of maturity is within the realm of being fully developed, there is a more precise definition that would apply to the psychological and mental practice of what is maturity.