Rethinking The Age Of Adulthood

cbs ^ | 10-27-03

[TexasTransplant]

Mentally adulthood seems to start at about 28

 

With me it was 17 in Basic, if you take a gander at the avg age of the folks on Aircraft Carriers, towing around 50 - 80 Million Dollar Aircraft, Launching and Receiving 24/7 (the most Dangerous Job in America) these Americans are average age 19, (it really freaked out the Socialist Russian Generals & Admirals when we gave them tours, they thought we were pulling their collective legs)... Put the responsibility on the shoulders, be there for guidance and council.  

 

Hell an Adult can be a 13 yr old without guidance, I got my PADI International SCUBA card from a kid that was 13 years old, he was an American Kid living in the Philippines, he had an Office, Shop, Vehicles, Secretaries, etc. and he was as far as I know the youngest Certified PADI Instructor in the World.

 

Without confronting reality, you can spend an entire life as a child, I give you Ted Kennedy as an example.

[GeronL]

Read 11 and 16. I should have aded it to my first post.

[supercat]

I suspect most 12-year-olds of 100 years ago were more mature than most 21-year-olds of today.

[Chu Gary]

The people in this article are totally clueless and will probably remain that way til the day they go over the rainbow. IMHO, clueless children are typically the product of clueless, overly indulgent, parents. So, the parents of these 20-ish adolescents are merely prolonging the agony for all involved. And, of course, they all just luv the Democratic pahty!!

[Dan from Michigan]

Thank God the only times I'm at my parent's house, it is as a GUEST.

[TexasTransplant]

Read 11 and 16. I should have added it to my first post.

 

See the Ted Kennedy analogy was PEERRRFECCT. 

[jocon307]

"I suspect most 12-year-olds of 100 years ago were more mature than most 21-year-olds of today.

Well, then it's all the same, because they had about the same amount of years ahead of them. Never forget, work expands to fill the time allotted to it, I think that may be true with life too.

[Lester Moore]

What would (did) Jesus do? He stayed with his "parents" until he was 30, didn't he? What was He doing all that time?

But his mother was pregnant at 15, just before being married. Surely the Holy Spirit didn't knock up a child.

[Graybeard58]

The original poster would have been clearer by saying "minimum age" instead of age limit. An age limit would have meant the maximum age.

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[A Simple Soldier]

Others are shunning the idea of home ownership, even with the rock-bottom interest rates that have made it possible for buy property right out of college.

"I don't believe that my sense of being is dependent on what I own," says Ashley Mohney, a 24-year-old Chicagoan and avowed renter who works as a library clerk at a law firm. "I don't need a status symbol such as a house or property to feel complete or accomplished."

"That comes from my writing, playing guitar and good friends," says Mohney, an avid poetry and short-story writer outside of work.

I bet a nickle this girl just pines for Hillary to save us all from the evils of consumerism that private property ownership represents.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Gag, puke.

I quit school at 13 and went to work, at 15 I lied about my age and was working as an adult on a dredge boat building the levee around Lake Okeechobee, Florida.

When I turned 17 I went into the army, and the first thing I did was make out a $50.00 a month allotment (this when my monthly pay as a buck private was $69.00 a month) to my single mother with four younger siblings to support and feed. Many of the guys in my army outfits back in the 1950's were doing the same thing. why? Because as a responsible person, it was the right thing to do.

There was nothing unusual about this for many boys, when you turned 17 you went into military service and got it over with. You helped your family when they needed it and you could. You came out a man, you got married, started a family of your own and built a life for them that was better that the one you had as a kid.

If you want kids to grow up, give them stark responsibilities to face and they will rise to the occasion. Look at our wonderful young men and women who served in the recent Iraqi combat, and they now have the damn disagreeable job of some fighting and dying in the resulting terrorist war. They were given a deadly responsibility and a reason for accepting it, they did, and they are. May G_D bless them one and all and look over them.

I have no respect for whiny over educated 20 something's sucking on the sugar tit at home with momma and poppa because the world was not delivered to their delicate feet on a silver platter. Get out, root wild hog or die.

[Keyes2000mt]

I'm married 23, working for a bank, and hoping to buy a house within the next year or two.