Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, once said, “Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility.” Analyzing his statement, we have to take into consideration, what defines an adult? The age of responsibility, for a long time, have been a very controversial and contradicting topic. Although there is a big debate on what the age of responsibility should be, I believe people should be considered responsible at the age of twenty or older. This is because they have more real world experience, their brain is closer to being fully developed, and they have a bigger sense of who they are.
Whether a person can be considered an adult can vary from person to person. This all depends on a person’s state of mind and ability to handle responsibility. Experiences are what mature people, and some go through more than others; therefore, the right age is uncertain. An appropriate age to consider a person an adult is probably twenty or older. At around this age, most people are out of high school and moving out of their parents’ house,
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
Maturity is not a fickle expression such as happiness or frustration, but rather an inherent quality one gains over time, such as courage or integrity. Before maturity can be expressed, the one who expresses it must have significant confidence in himself, since self-confidence is the root of maturity. Being flexible and formulating one's own opinions or ideas are aspects of maturity, but neither is possible without self-confidence. The greatest aspect of maturity is the ability to make decisions which society does not agree with. Whether or not one follows through with these ideas is not important. What is important is the ability to make the decision. These decisions represent the greatest measure of maturity.
Many people have been questioning on whether maturity depends on one’s age. I believe that maturity isn’t dependant on someone’s age because one matures based on things they’ve undergo, and how their environment can be.
The age of responsibility is a time when adolescents become an adult and are put on with the responsibilities that they will have for the rest of your life. In the article “Age of Responsibility” by Alan Greenblatt they question what age is considered the age of responsibility? There is no set age that is considered the age of responsibility because everyone develops differently and at different times so there is no set age.
adult and you yourself will become one. After highschool, most people tend to grow up
In America, when a person turns eighteen, that person is now considered an adult and is treated like one as well. That person is entrusted with responsibilities such as voting, enlisting in the armed services, opening personal bank accounts and possibly holding public office. If a person can be entrusted with such responsibilities at that particular age, who can say that he/she is not ...
What makes an adult an adult? Is it based on their age? Does turning 18 automatically make you an adult? Should juvenile criminals convicted of a crime be tried and sentenced as adults? Why not? Juvenile criminals should be tried and sentenced as adults.
There is not true definition on what it means to be an adult, there is an age sure where you are legally considered an adult at eighteen years old, but as seen in texts we read this year such as The Body, Pleasantville, and Room characters that are vastly under the age of 18 are forces or rise to the role of an adult. The idea of being and adult is also a question that has no definition. One can think it means when you start a family and have children or it can be when you have to get a job to provide for a loved one different situations at home an in life cause children and more broadly people to grow up quickly. In the novel The Body we see that as being a coming of age story there is almost no mention of the “textbook” examples of characters
Unbelievably, the United States citizens trust their sixteen-year-old children to drive three thousand pound vehicles. We require our working young to pay taxes. We trust the decision-making abilities of eighteen year olds in public elections, with the right to smoke, and with the choice of marriage without parental consent. Our young adults are encouraged to join the army and fight for their country. We however believe that until the age of twenty-one our young adults can not handle alcohol.
A team is a group of individuals, all working together for a common purpose. The individuals comprising a team ideally should have common goals, common objectives and more or less think on the same lines. Individuals who are not compatible with each other can never form a team. They should have similar if not the same interests, thought processes, attitude, perception and likings.
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” Responsibility is a big part I am at college and have a job here today which a reason for everyone but for me that didn’t sit in till freshman year of high school I was care free until football. What I had to do was to work together on the field also in the classroom or I would let the team down. Our coach always told us there is teamwork, hard work, and respectful will follow us around for the rest of your life that’s what we are going to learn. I would have to say looking back on it I definitely learn those things from what I did make a better person I would have to thank him for that too.
J. J. Arnett argues his theory about a developmental stage individuals go through of 18-25 year olds as a new concept, (Arnett, 2000, pp. 469). He describes emerging adulthood as being a sustained period of time where this age group, as mentioned previously, explores their roles preceding being an adult. These movements can include events similarly by taking longer than previous years to get married and have children, moving back in with their parents at a point during this age span, exploring self-identities, not feeling like an adult and feelings of self-failure. James E. Cote, who is a previous colleague of Arnett argues the opposite about this concept being an unexperienced developmental stage Arnett calls, “Emerging Adulthood”. Cote states
When an individual turns 18 they are seen more as an adult and take many adult decisions. This person also gains many rights such as the right to vote. If someone who is 18 gets into trouble they will also get tried as an adult and get consequences such as going to jail. The maturity factor has been looked at in many of the articles but one stuck out to me such as “The “old enough to fight, old enough to drink” argument has force. In fact, 18-year-olds in America are old enough to do pretty much everything except drink. Along with joining the military, 18-year-olds can vote, marry, sign contracts, and even take on a crippling lifetime burden of student loan debt in pursuit of an education that may never land them a job. Yet we face the absurd phenomenon of colleges encouraging students to go into six-figure debt—which can’t be discharged in bankruptcy—but forbidding them to drink on campus because they’re deemed insufficiently mature to appreciate the risks” (Reynolds A17). These facts opened my eyes and made me for sure for to lower the age of drinking to age
Adulthood has often been associated with independence. It serves as a turning point in life where one has to take responsibility for oneself and no longer being dependent on his or her family. Early adulthood, usually begins from late teens or early twenties and will last until the thirties (Santrock, 2013). Early adulthood revolves around changes and exploration while middle and late adulthood are more of stability. The transition from adolescence and adulthood differs among every individual. The onset of the transition is determined by many factors such as culture, family background, and the personality of the individual. Emerging adulthood (as cited in Santrock, 2014) is the term to describe the transition period from adolescence to adulthood.
There are many factors that constitute being an adult. An adult is much more than turning the age of 18. The definition in the dictionary states an adult means being completely grown: fully developed and mature. I think there is much more that defines an adult. In the United States an adult is considered to be someone who takes responsibility of themselves and their actions. An adult has stability in their life and is able to take care of themselves physically, mentally, financially and emotionally. In other countries and cultures there definition of an adult differs.
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