Pretty much the title. It seems 18 is universally recognized as the age of adulthood and I’m wondering why such a specific number. Why not 20 for example?
I know there are tribes around the world where children step into adulthood at a younger age, but usually there is some sort of rite of passage involved.
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We? If you mean America, why not state that? There are 200-ish countries in the world – YOU arrived at 18, the rest of the planet doesn’t march in lockstep with everything you do. Sorry, but it gets tiresome answering ‘why is X the way it is’ when often barely anywhere else is the same.
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