The teen years are an exciting time, filled with friendships, parties, and much more. At sixteen years of age, many youth are focused on getting a driver's license, practicing sports, or preparing for their sweet sixteen. Not everything that teens do are the responsible thing to do. For example, adolescents often times pull pranks, gossip, and get into lots of trouble. Therefore, changing the voting age to sixteen is preposterous because most sixteen-year-olds are not mature.
Most teens don’t desire to vote. Simply, most teens do not take the time to educate themselves on a candidate. In addition, if a teen were asked which candidate that they liked the most they would simply regurgitate what their parents say (“The Pros and Cons”). Currently, political participation is thirty-six percent, but in the past, political participation was fifty-two percent. In the past, new voters such as minority groups have been added, but the participation rate failed to increase (“ The Pros and Cons”). Indeed, votes are valuable, but those votes should be represented by their fathers until they are eighteen. The quality of votes is far more important than the quantity of votes ( “The Pros and Cons”). …show more content…
Laziness becomes a daily habit for teens. For instance, the messy ground of a teenager’s bedroom enables one to question how any person can live in such filth. Recently, a study showed that the average teenager prefers apples to oranges simply because they don’t have to go through the hassle of peeling the apple!The average teenager is expensive to maintain. Mindlessly, teens stay up all night playing with their Xbox, watching their television, play their video games, and using their phones to do social media or text their friends. Even through all of this, someone wants to hand teenagers a
Most teens don’t desire to vote. Simply, most teens do not take the time to educate themselves on a candidate. In addition, if a teen were asked which candidate that they liked the most they would simply regurgitate what their parents say (“The Pros and Cons”). Currently, political participation is thirty-six percent, but in the past, political participation was fifty-two percent. In the past, new voters such as minority groups have been added, but the participation rate failed to increase (“ The Pros and Cons”). Indeed, votes are valuable, but those votes should be represented by their fathers until they are eighteen. The quality of votes is far more important than the quantity of votes ( “The Pros and Cons”). …show more content…
Laziness becomes a daily habit for teens. For instance, the messy ground of a teenager’s bedroom enables one to question how any person can live in such filth. Recently, a study showed that the average teenager prefers apples to oranges simply because they don’t have to go through the hassle of peeling the apple!The average teenager is expensive to maintain. Mindlessly, teens stay up all night playing with their Xbox, watching their television, play their video games, and using their phones to do social media or text their friends. Even through all of this, someone wants to hand teenagers a