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Question: Should the age of majority be lowered to 16?
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sure
 
#2
don't care
 
#3
no
 
#4
for certain things only
 
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Total Voters: 52

Author Topic: Lower the age of majority to 16?  (Read 3037 times)
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« on: July 26, 2017, 10:12:14 PM »

Yes and no.  I certainly hate that we have (as a society) been delaying marriage and having kids to later and later in life.  No one should reach their late 20s and still not be settled down with kids.  I think our mainstream pop culture and TV shows glorifying the 30 year-old single lifestyle has to be at least partially to blame.  At the rate our society has moved to delaying adulthood, the concept of a grandparent will be a thing of the past soon enough.  I'm fortunate enough to have known all four of my grandparents into adulthood (and three of them are still with us), but I wonder how many more generations will be able to say that.

I think treating people as adults at age 16 could be a useful tool to fixing this issue.  Honestly, I would probably be OK giving most or all rights of adulthood at 16, as it largely has been (if not younger) throughout human history.
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