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Why are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Title: Why is 18 Considered an Adult? Why do we consider an 18 year old an adult? While you might not personally consider your average 18 year old a full-fledged adult, 18 is a pretty magic number in the US. It’s the the age when you can vote, go to war, work full time, and move out of their parents house. Why is this the case? Well while you might think there’s some sort of biological or traditional explanation, that’s not the case. The age of “adult” in America has always been in flux. Do you enjoy the show? The check us out on: Like our Facebook Page:   / pbsoriginofe.  . Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited: Philippe Aries Centuries of Childhood https://monoskop.org/images/d/d0/Ari%... Joe Fischel http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/20... Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent (Yale Orbis) Robin Bernstein Racial Innocence Hugh Cunningham Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog... http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/203474?... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an... http://www.history.com/topics/the-26t... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st... https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/cont... https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/a... https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/i-a... https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_age http://www.history.com/topics/the-26t...