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    want on your own means no one can tell you no and no one will be bored. While it is true that one out of nine teens will get in a wreck, this does not account for the fact that if you raise the driving age it will just be one out of nine young adults over eighteen. Raising the driving age will just raise the age of the people in the statistic. I believe this happens because it is about how much experience you have driving,…

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    Young love from a behavioral view, would state that adolescents engage themselves in relationships simple because that is what they see other people doing in the world. They feel as if they are obligated to be in a relationship, and sometimes will settle for anyone who agrees to be with them. To prove this theory, a behaviorist would have to observe multiple teenagers that grow up in two completely different environments, one where children grow up with both parents who live together happily and…

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    age should remain at 16 because teenagers need autonomy. Teenagers need freedom, they need to live a little and because they are close to adulthood and want to be treated like adults. Also, it will help teenagers learn how to be responsible by being able to take of their car. Last, teenagers are getting closer to being adults and they don’t like having their parents…

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    Presently the minimum driving age in the United States is 16 years old. Some 16 year olds do lack the maturity and responsibility to drive, but the driving age does not need to be changed and maybe the driving course itself needs to be renewed. So young drivers will have no leeway for silly mistakes they may stumble upon, and give irresponsible teens the guidance they need to stay safe. When it come to teen driving in general, a broad view of the situation is essential. Common…

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    “Being a teen vs Being a Toddler” Being a teenager and being a toddler is both very similar and very different. There are many ways they alike, like the reaction of certain situations. Also many ways they are different like their lifestyle complexity. Being a teen and being a toddler are more similar than you would think and have lots in common. Like how when you're a teenager you start to make new friends who influence you in different ways than your old friends and as a toddler, you start to…

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    Juvenile Criminals

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    Teens convicted of murder should be able charged as juveniles because their brain has not yet finished being developed and they may still have a chance of turning their life around by being rehabilitated. teenagers are still at an early point in their life and it is very possible that they will rehabilitate and become better people. Impulse control, according to Laura Sanders, is the “ability to overcome our emotions so that we don’t react in ways we shouldn’t” (Fear Prompts Teens to Act…

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    Gray Matter In Teens

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    Teens are considered “adults” at the ripe age of eighteen. They are often asked to make life changing decisions at this time in their life, such as moving out or marriage. Researchers often wonder if this age is too young to make reasonable choices. There has been numerous studies on a substance found in adolescents known as gray matter. Gray matter is the cause for this stupidity found in teenagers. According to The Teen Brain Still Under Construction,”...Volume of gray matter was the highest…

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    adolescents experience most of the characteristic changes of this period because the hypothalamus triggers a tremendous transformation. Some of the changes that occur in biological development are puberty and brain development. Also, individuals get more adult appearances. Because of the biological changes, people around the adolescent start to notice different behaviors and parents and society start treat the adolescent differently. Lots of hormonal changes occurs during this period. This…

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    The brain controls everything that people do from their skill set to small things like embarrassment. This is because of neurons and hormones. This is the relationship between the brain and people’s behavior.There are a lot of differences through childhood and adulthood on how the brain affects your behavior. In ¨Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain¨ and “Use It Or Lose It: A Good Brain Pruning.” it shows how the brain affects behavior. In the article, ¨Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain,¨ the…

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    Juvenile offenders, being mostly teenagers, are at an age marked by rebellion, self-consciousness and deep need to be accepted by the group. Such factors as not being to wear their own clothes She idleness that does not allow them to use up the surge of energy that occurs during adolescents of energy that occurs during adolescence, the boredom (to which teens are especially susceptible), I suppose the prevalence of tattooing in inmates (although I do not know how they obtain them) gives them a…

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