Should we extend the endpoint of adolescence from 18 to 25? History offers some surprising lessons about the age of adulthood.
tests, for instance. But if they’re feeling strong emotions, those scores can plummet. The problem seems to be that teenagers have not yet developed a strong brain system that keeps emotions under control."In doing research for this post, I expected to find evidence demonstrating that the accepted age of adulthood was pushed back gradually over the centuries, as life expectancy increased and intellectual work gradually replaced physical work.
Even more surprising is that 2,000 years ago, early Roman law set the age of full maturity at 25, establishing the minimum age for young males to independently engage in formal acts and contracts without advisement. Furthermore, between the ages of 15 and 25, young Roman males were placed under the temporary guardianship of adults known as, and"a curator’s approval was required to validate young males’ formal acts or contracts until they reached twenty-five years of age.
The ubiquitous pressures of social media alone have increased the emotional stakes of everything that today's adolescents try to do, in ways that no previous generation ever experienced.
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