Adulthood: When is the Turning Point?
A fourteen year old male was brought into a court hearing for killing a young man in a drive by shooting. The hearing is not to decide the criminals' punishment; it is to decide whether he should be tried as an adult or as a juvenile. How does the judge rule if he is an adult? Actually, how does anyone classify an adult?
Adulthood is yet another concept that can be defined in many different ways. The idea of adulthood can be viewed as universal, but its form and content are specific to each particular culture or country. It is a broad and complex abstraction and no one is expected to fully comprehend it, but can the ideas of one country be better than the ideas of another? According to Kok and Myburgh, South African writers, the following aspects of adulthood exist: a sense of responsibility, financial or material values, social obligations, family obligations, labor orientation, environmental responsibility, and acceptance of accountability, self-concept, time orientation, civil responsibilities, and a sense of religion (Kok).
The passage from a teenager to adulthood is one of the most complicated and confusing processes an adolescent can experience. It can be especially confusing since the teenager is not totally aware what it means to be an adult. Many associate adulthood with the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed or the state of a person who has attained maturity or puberty. Others may disagree and say that a person's age or size does not matter. That age only matters to a certain point. Once a child is out of the age of innocence, and knows the difference between right and wrong, he or she gets a chance to be responsible, and make a decision that is either right or wrong. Some may even say it is when you turn eighteen or others will say it is when you get your driver's license. Then again, you can say being an adult means achieving a separate identity, being able to support yourself and your family financially, and being able to provide a house or a place to call home.
One of the concepts of adulthood mentioned before was labor orientation. The Workplace Code Provision states: "No person will be employed at an age younger than 15 (or 14 where the law of the country of manufacture allows)" (Child Labor).
Individualism plays a key role in this story and shows how being an individualistic society can be the downfall to the strongest country in the world. This essay will discuss the struggle of man versus man, man versus nature, and the author's intent in Parable of the Sower. Butler talks about many aspects of life and the struggle to survive, and this essay will explore three main ideas that occurred in this book.
youth who is old enough to work but not allowed to manage any of the
The creator dives profound into the thought of God and shows America as being very nearly at the purpose of social and cash based breakdown. The reason is straightforward: individuals make defenseless even with enormous organizations. Individuals must attempt to accomplish control after they completely bear their individual social obligations. In this manner, she and other dark individuals take off to North accepting it to their last/absolute best sheltered spot.
“The minimum employment age for employment in industrial, agricultural, or commercial companies is 15. The minimum age for apprenticeships is 14. There is no minimum age restriction for work in domestic service and there are no legal penalties for employing children in domestic labor unless the nature or condition of domestic service harms their health, safety, or morals.”
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.
Teenagers still should have the chance to grow up and to experience “love” and relationships without their life being jepordized by other parents because they are unhappy about their children's relationship. In other words, they should not be considered an “adult” because they really do not understand the law or what is actually going on in life. Twenty years of age would be more of an appropriate age that people can actually be considered an adult.
People label children as adults and acknowledge that they have grown a sense of responsibility and direction, as well as thought of the future. I personally see the transition into adulthood as self-awareness. When you gain the self-awareness to really understand that everyone around you goes to sleep, wakes up, eats, and does all the things that you do it really brings a sense of humanity to yourself and you start to treat people better. Annie Dillard, a Pulitzer prize winning author, writes this in her short story, “The Chase.” (Dillard) “…At the corner, I looked back; incredibly, he was still after us. He was in city clothes: a suit and tie, street shoes. Any normal adult would have quit, having sprung us
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
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.
In contradiction to the Western culture, African societies use systematized adulthood rites as initiation for their people. Western societies use no systems in particular when it comes to educating and guiding their adolescents during one of the most important stages in their lives. Adulthood simply is achieved upon turning 18 for females or 21 for males, and in some cases, when
When you turn eighteen you are expected to just be mature. You’re allowed to buy a house, a car, get a credit card, it seems like you can do whatever you want. Maturity basically gets thrown at you, so hopefully you are prepared for it. High school responsibilities, like getting a job, budgeting your time and learning to drive teach you skills that you can use in your adult life, if you choose to apply them. Maturity is about choice. You can be given every skill that you need to survive and if you are mature enough you will use them.
Many people believe that age determined adulthood but they are wrong because age is a number and everyone grows up in different rates. You can’t always expect everyone to become mature at the same age, because everyone is different. Many teens become adults faster for certain reason and some of them were not give the option they just had to too. Becoming an adult is not an option for everyone but sooner or later you have to grow up because you can’t stay a kid forever. Being 18 years old makes you legally an adult in united states, but in reality we know that 18 years old are very different from maturity as well responsibilities and life experience.
Childhood and adulthood are two different periods of one’s lifetime but equally important. Childhood is the time in everybody’s life when they are growing up to be an adult. This is when they are being considered babies because of their youthfulness and innocence. Adulthood is the period of time where everybody is considered “grown up,” usually they begin to grow up around the ages of eighteen or twenty-one years old but they do remain to develop during this time. However, in some different backgrounds, not everybody is not fully adults until they become independent with freedom, responsible for their own actions, and able to participate as an adult within society. Although childhood and adulthood are both beneficial to our lives, both periods share some attributes such as independence, responsibility, and innocence that play distinctive roles in our development.
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
There are, in some cases, firms that employ young and inexperienced workers, as mentioned before they are usually known as "youth friendly industries". Industries such as McDonalds, Coles/Myer, Safeway/Woolworths and KFC just to name a few, are the leading retail and takeaway outlets employing youth. Not only do they employ them but they provide them with the essential training to perform their duties with maximum efficiency. Some people see working as an obstacle towards school and homework and others don't want to work for ridiculously low pay. In conjunction with a high youth unemployment rate the government has introduced schemes to counteract this problem and to keep the youth population in school and out of the workforce.