Posted on 09/25/2013 7:19:04 PM PDT by chessplayer
New guidance for psychologists will acknowledge that adolescence now effectively runs up until the age of 25 for the purposes of treating young people. So is this the new cut-off point for adulthood?
"The idea that suddenly at 18 you're an adult just doesn't quite ring true," says child psychologist Laverne Antrobus, who works at London's Tavistock Clinic.
"My experience of young people is that they still need quite a considerable amount of support and help beyond that age."
Child psychologists are being given a new directive which is that the age range they work with is increasing from 0-18 to 0-25.
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Well, everyone ought to agree that this is not a good thing. So society should focus on changing it and making adulthood start at 18. I would hope that society would NOT focus on how to make our 25-year-old children jolly and full of self-esteem.
Good... I agree... Let’s change the voting age to 26...
If you can be on your parents insurance until you’re 26, then you can’t vote. Live and work a few years on your own and HOPEFULLY you’ll stop voting for RATS...
Just think what fun a 25 yo will have being diapered by his nanny. We are becoming a nation of sniveling, complaining and weak kneed people waiting for someone to take care of us and will never be satisfied by the care we receive.
This ties in with the perpetual adolescence witnessed on a daily basis these days.
Physiologically, the brain does not complete development until about age 25.
Just from my own life experiences and observations, I agree that one does not become an adult at age 18. I think 25 is about right.
Bingo! But they shouldn’t be subject to the draft until then. As well as drinking, smoking, medical marijuana, contracts, marriage, etc.
Heck, from what I’ve seen 45 year old children are common. $0 years old, no job but a girlfriend on welfare, plays video games all night and gets up at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, has the latest video games and gigantic flat screen TV, 3 or 4 unsupported children by previous bimbo girlfriends, and still mooches off friends, relatives and the government.
The pussy-fication of America trundles along.
By the time I was 25, I had put in four years in the military, had my own job, apartment, in a town 100 miles completly separate from my folks ever since I was 19 and on my own.
Being under your parent’s insurance till 26 is nonsense.
Really depends, I know some 25 year olds that act 16, my oldest will be 18 next week, and I would turn her loose today and not worry a bit about her being a productive member of our society. Some of her friends, not so much.
25? Hah! I’ve seen this:
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
I know people in their 50’s that are still juveniles. Personally, I like the Jewish cutoff: 12
No 32 not 26
Nobody should be able to vote until they are at least 32.
I got married when I was 20, my wife was 18, two years later I was raising my first child.
We have been married for 50 years.
Adult at 25?? I dunno, but when I look at the antics of idiots like Miley Cyrus who is 20, Maybe they are right.
Perhaps kids of today are not adults until they are 25.
Adulthood began at 15 a hundred years ago. In the Middle ages, men hardly older were leading armies into battle.
I would say 14 is when you are an adult. Historically this is true. But now many want to infantalize those in their early 20s.
Many girls of 15 are reproductive members of society!
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