Is it just because that’s when you’re done with high school? College is still fairly “expected”, so why isn’t that counted?
I don’t understand why most/a lot of cultures view 18 as that turning point, even though we know the brain isn’t even fully developed until 25.
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In short, because you have to pick a number or the laws would be even more super complicated. It used to be closer to college age in several countries, but then the world decided to ship a bunch of people off to fight a big war at ages younger than that and then expected them to be fine with being treated like they were still kids when they came back. They weren’t.
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