Adulthood pathway
A lot of controversies exist about what age a person should be considered a legal adult. An adult is a person who has attained the age of majority or maturity. The age of majority is the legally defined age at which a person is considered an adult, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities of adulthood. The question is: At what age should a person be considered a legal adult? Is it at sixteen (never too early to start paying bills), eighteen (Democrats and Republicans favorite this age) or twenty-one (Bars and beers?) Eighteen- years old should be the right age to consider a person as a legal adult. I stand with the Democrats and Republicans for three reasons.
The first reason is, at eighteen …show more content…
He can legally work; can apply for credit in his or her own name, take civic engagement such as: Active membership in a group or association, community problem solving and regular volunteering for a non-electoral organization. In their book, “Civic Engagement and the Transition to Adulthood” Constance Flanagan and Peter Levine maintain that “Civic engagement is important both for the functioning of democracies and for the growth and maturation it encourages in young adults.”(Sounds really good on paper) This person has the right to vote and can marry or sign contracts. He also has the right to give sexual consent and to join the army. At eighteen a person can make his own end- of- life decision, can be an organ donor and can legally obtain medical treatment without parental consent. An adult can make any kind of decision without parental consent.
The final reason is, a parent of an eighteen -year -old is under no legal pressure to continue to provide housing, care or support. This person will be pushed towards adulthood and will start to solve problems; by solving problems he will become independent. So at this age a person is able to face the reality of life and will develop all the right characteristics of a grown adult without the help of his parents. At this point, he can face obligations and develop the sense of responsibilities as a legal adult, and will be aware and be able to give great responses to all the
A lot of controversies exist about what age a person should be considered a legal adult. An adult is a person who has attained the age of majority or maturity. The age of majority is the legally defined age at which a person is considered an adult, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities of adulthood. The question is: At what age should a person be considered a legal adult? Is it at sixteen (never too early to start paying bills), eighteen (Democrats and Republicans favorite this age) or twenty-one (Bars and beers?) Eighteen- years old should be the right age to consider a person as a legal adult. I stand with the Democrats and Republicans for three reasons.
The first reason is, at eighteen …show more content…
He can legally work; can apply for credit in his or her own name, take civic engagement such as: Active membership in a group or association, community problem solving and regular volunteering for a non-electoral organization. In their book, “Civic Engagement and the Transition to Adulthood” Constance Flanagan and Peter Levine maintain that “Civic engagement is important both for the functioning of democracies and for the growth and maturation it encourages in young adults.”(Sounds really good on paper) This person has the right to vote and can marry or sign contracts. He also has the right to give sexual consent and to join the army. At eighteen a person can make his own end- of- life decision, can be an organ donor and can legally obtain medical treatment without parental consent. An adult can make any kind of decision without parental consent.
The final reason is, a parent of an eighteen -year -old is under no legal pressure to continue to provide housing, care or support. This person will be pushed towards adulthood and will start to solve problems; by solving problems he will become independent. So at this age a person is able to face the reality of life and will develop all the right characteristics of a grown adult without the help of his parents. At this point, he can face obligations and develop the sense of responsibilities as a legal adult, and will be aware and be able to give great responses to all the