I’m not asking this from a biology lens, I get that aspect, but more from the sociology/anthropology lens. My question is which culture started using 18 as this hard cutoff, when, and under what reasoning.
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In England the age of majority was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1969. There are still many things that you can do at ages below that – particularly 16, sometimes only with parental consent but often without.
For example, at 16 you can without parental consent leave home, choose to enter further education, take full-time employment, open a bank account and have full capacity over medical treatment.
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