Today I Found Out

How Do They Decide the Age When You Become an Adult? (2017x117)

Air date: May 14, 2017

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: People continue to mature and grow as individuals throughout our lifetimes (at least ideally). So the 45 year old you would probably not only be better equipped to make decisions than the 25 year old version, but also in all likelihood be a very different person, both literally (in the replacing of your body’s physical makeup in that gap) and mentally. Nevertheless, the 45 year old version of you and the much less mature and less accomplished 25 year old version are, in most societies, living under the exact same set of rules and restrictions. So why is some arbitrary number like 18 or 21 considered the cutoff point when society says everyone should be operating on a level playing field, legally speaking? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/age-become-adult/ Sources: http://www.tedkennedy.org/ownwords/event/voting_age http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-age-consent-around-world-2802173 http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/the-legacy-of-1885-girls-and-the-age-of-sexual-consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_driving_age http://chartsbin.com/view/re6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004294 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Military/Service-age-and-obligation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution http://www.tedkennedy.org/ownwords/event/voting_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority Music from Jukedeck - create your o