Aged eighteen equals adult or not?

[Roll_On]

yes, have you?

yes, so what part of it is daycaresque?

[Where'smyNAMA?]

I think Voting age should be confined to married couples with children.

I do not want voters who are free floating individualists, they will only vote for their narrow immediate concerns.

A family man/woman will at least consider the future of their kids.

Representational democracy is a sham anyway, kids are better off staying away from it.

That's fine with me as long as you'd be happy enough to apply the concept of "no taxation without representation".

[jcdf]

I do not know what the specific age is when a person becomes an adult. Does it really matter? Changing it would do nothing useful.

[uriah]

I have heard of parents ringing college lecturers in recent years to berate them about their adult children's results etc. Talk about the elongated childhood!

Yes, but if the'adult' son/daughter is 24 and unemployed, the state (Department of Social & Family Affairs) askes for details of parents' income when assessing the 'adult' for social welfare benefits.

And if the 18 year-old 'adult' is applying for a third-level grant, their elligibility is assessed based on the parents' income/means.

State cannot have it both ways.

[Expatriot]

I have always wondered why you are asked what your parents earn per year when applying for a college grant. What has that to do with anything once you are 18?

We dont treat young people as seperate human beings from the family they grew up in until they are about 30. And they we wonder why some of them pass their time on a PS3.

[Telemachus]

That's fine with me as long as you'd be happy enough to apply the concept of "no taxation without representation".

There is no representation in this country without direct democracy.