Explain What Age Should Be Considered Responsible Enough To Call Themselves And Be Called An Adult

What age should a person be considered responsible enough to call themselves and be called an adult? People have debated whether the lawmakers and governments have set the ages for certain things such as smoking and drinking, even getting a driver’s license, too high or too low. The age of responsibility and being considered an adult shouldn’t depend on a fixed age; it should depend on the level of responsibility a person has. Kids are expected to act as adults while still being treated like children, today’s teens are being more pressured to grow up faster than they should be, and everyone develops differently, but elders aren't being called into question even though some lack more mastery skills than young people. Nowadays, kids and teens are being expected to act as adults, but how are they going to do that while they are still being treated as 5 year olds? “...young people are bombarded with mixed signals about the scope of their rights and the depth of their

“The fact that every person is different and develops at his own pace doesn’t make the creation of policy any easier.” (Greenblatt 22) Take driving for example. A lot of young people are getting pulled over and getting called into question for no apparent reason, but adults haven’t even been pulled over when running a red light or speeding. “While nearly every state recently has put new limits on teen drivers, no state has begun restricting―or even testing― elderly drivers, some whom may, like teens, lack mastery of their vehicles.” (Greenblatt 11) Teens and young people are being watched more when it comes to having their GDL, graduated driver’s license (more likely known as a permit), than older drivers. Robert Epstein, a psychologist and author of Teen 2.0, completed a study of over 30,000 people stating and showing that thirty percent of American teenagers are more competent than the median adult in a variety of