A new study says adulthood starts at 24

Someone came out with a study that now says adulthood starts at 24. When you look at the intelligence and education of young adults these days, that may very well be true. If you are still living in mommies basement at 23 IMO you are NOT an adult.

Look at the difference between kids these days compared to teens of WWII. Kids right out HS were drafted into the military and were expected to be adult men and women. Some of them were adult enough they managed to get in the military as young as 14. The military in WWII sure the hell wasnt a safe place with hot chocolate and teddy bears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Was the Bigot-in-Chief 24 when this happened?

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/31...elated-to-trump-apartment-discrimination-case

 

When does second childhood start?

 

Times change, bro.

 

Also, 23 year olds still living at home isn't proof of not being an adult, some people would prefer to save their money before getting a house or need a job.

 

Looks like was under 24 when this happened.

https://www.snopes.com/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-draft-deferments/

 

Could very well be true. Tbh I think there are more metrics hat need to be considered other than living status. So this may be a little subjective and limited.

But it goes without question our educational system does a flat out atrocious job at preparing the younger generations for life. I’m a millennial I think? 35... I had to learn everything on my own. School, through college DID ABSOLUTELY nothing but get me into debt. It’s a racket and a giant scam.

 

Usually when your balls drop, I guess.

I can't really say with women, though. I see teenagers looking like brickhouses these days but I think it might be as a consequence of all of the hormones in the cow milk they're drinking. lol. I dunno. Down south where I'm from you get the cornbread and collard green fed hens filling out pretty good. But at a slower, more natural pace. Though, they intellectually mature early on. Likely as a consequence of proper upbringing and being taught early on respect for their fellow man. Same with the males in that regard, generally.

Whuheva.

 

When it's convenient in perpetuating victimhood culture, particularly female victimhood, childhood ends later into the 20s, "but... but... she was just a (20 year old who is ironically competent to make abortion decisions) baby!"

When it's time to gather up young, naïve votes, well of course they are fully mature adults at 18.

One of the best "vote farm" tricks the gov-edu-union-contractor-grantee-trial lawyer-MSM Complex ever pulled was extending the voting franchise to -all- 18 y.o. instead of only those who served active military duty.
Rationally, the voting age should be at least 21 with exceptions for those who actively serve in the military. The same people who have undertaken immense effort to extend immaturity in the population would expend the same effort in fighting a rational voting age ironically. Wonder why?

 

next they'll try to inculcate this into the criminal justice system. 23 year old gang banger assassins packed off to juvie

 

Could be the truth, the age. I read last year where some new brain research has evidenced the frontal lobe, at least I think they said frontal lobe is not fully developed until around 24 or 25. Which would explain to me why I did what I did until I reached that age. I was firing on all 8 cylinders. And went to Nam at age 18. I think that may have sped up the development process. For I was smarter when I came back, than before I went. I was pro war when I enlisted, but left it feeling 180 from my original position.

Not only are kids staying longer at home today, many of them, due to as low wage service sector economy slave labor competition and illegal immigration, but they are not getting married so soon as we once did. Cannot afford to get married. So there is much more involved than the frontal lobe not being fully developed until 24 or 25.

 

Pretty much. The economy is tanked, we're 21 trilion dollars in debt and growing by the minute, the dollar is down 98 percent since 1913 and worth a grand total of 4 cents worth of purchasing power, there are no jobs really, young people are being used as an illusion of growth by baiting them into taking on debt to go to college just so the government can say, hey, we have smart kids going to college who gawna beee somebody some day, even though there won't be a job for them when they get out. They're effectively just hiding the poor so nobody really sees it. And on top of that we just passed a tax bill that's actually a tax increase on the working class thanks to the adoption of chained cpi into it which is going to put the working class in a higher tax bracket in 8 years or so and at about the time they actually notice that tax increase which has been slowly rising and at about the time they lose a little more purchasing power thanks to the further devaluation of the dollar it'll cause.

That's never going to change until we ditch the money printing press and get back to free markets and sound money.

A far as the op's thought on military, we're spending trillions of dollars that we don't have, just to send the poor of our country to go kill the poor of foreign countries so the oil companies can rape and pillage them for their resources. That's another racket that's destroying our economy and devaluing our currency. And with the audacity to do it without a declaration of war.

But, as always, the trained monkeys that make up the voter base will love them for it...

 

I don't get it. Why should we continue to infantilize our kids? What guilt driven humanistic model does this serve? As a legal question, why? Do we assume that in a world where 15 yos can be charged as adults, that they are in dire need of additional legal protections and characterization as minors so they never have to be fully responsible to the law for their crime?

More, does this mean that feminism is using the 24 yo benchmark as the new standard that creates the line between age of consent and statutory violation?

Laughable liberals. This is too transparent. It drives too many "goals" that demand government solutions and drive liberal job availability...

 

Why do you think the Mr. Obatards Leftist designed ACA included the rule that 26 year olds could still be carried on Mommy and Daddy's insurance They knew they were never going to get a job, leave the nest or slightly mature until at least 30

 

Gosh darned nuts the shape we're in. lolol.

 

Your correct we have some frigging MONSTER 18 year old here! I blame chicken, they grow them things so fast it makes your head spin! Six weeks from egg to market 4# chickens!

Got Steroids? "Steroids do a body good"?

 

Sound like maybe you did or you have one that does LOLOL

 

When the 23 year old leaves the house to marry a strong women, I SUSPECT!

 

This was true for several of my friends still during the change in the economy. They just graduated college at the time and moved back home out of state before getting those jobs where they can now afford to live on their own. Just because older folks had the luxury of moving out and affording their own place before they could legally drink doesn't mean everyone is like that. Especially when they're looking for a house and not living in an apartment where they have to pay rent and would prefer to own things.

 

Agreed!

 

Simple, it perpetuates the "victimhood culture" aspect of identity politics and obviates the personal accountability necessary to form character over time... such individual character being the basis of a Constitutional Republic and anathema to collectivism.

"Yeah, you smoked all that meth and had 3 illegitimate children who are now wards of the state, three abortions too, but that was someone else's fault (probably the nearest adult white male) who victimized you... you were still just a baby!"

 

****. I'm 24.

I live out of home, have a job pulling 50k per year, and am studying full time.

Ever heard the phrase: 40 is the new 30? We're adjusting to having twice the lifespan of humans a few generations ago. I don't think it's necessarily bad that kids these days don't grow up until they're in their late 20s, I do however find it funny that they think they're old so young.

My cousin has a top of the line phone at age 13.

That's how it goes though.

 

The youngster's probably sitting in the basement thinking wtf!? Howmuh gonna pay 21 trillion dollars worth of mommys debt off and get a place, too? The kid's probabably wondering what the heck he did to deserve 21 trillion dollars worth of debt before his balls even dropped. You know?

If you think about it, youth today are really being left with a monsterous burden of irresponsibility of the so called 'mature' ones from the previous generations. Youth today have faaaaar more responsibility than any other generation in history. 21 trillion dollars worth. And a 4 cent dollars worth of purchasing power. And no jobs really.

Seems to me that if we're going to be so bold as to label the current generation of youth as irresponsible, then we should probably take a hard look in the mirror and recall the actual responsibility that we're leaving them with.

 

Oh, the first world problems.... As if, once finished, those graduates didn't find it necessary until they found their "dream jobs" to unburden their parents. How lucky there are... If you believe that "olderfolks" had a "luxury" you are frankly very mistaken. It was simply a recognition of their need to be responsible for themselves. Obviously, the "luxury" is having parents who continue to tolerate their kids.

 

That or the fact that maybe the world their parents grew up in isn't the same world their kids grew up in, where it was a bit easier.