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If you can be drafted at 18, then you should be able to vote at 18 and considered a adult.
^^This^^, O.P., is the main reason why the twenty-sixth amendment was added to this country's Constitution.
Because of the nineteenth and twenty-sixth amendments, I've considered it an honor and a privilege to have been able to vote since I was eighteen. (Technically earlier as I was able to vote in my first primary at seventeen. ) I'm glad that I didn't have to wait until I was twenty-one to vote as my mother and father did.
The age of majority should remain where it it--no matter whether or not young adults are either living at home, receiving occasional financial assistance, or flying solo. As another poster wrote, why hold back those who are ready for adult privileges at eighteen for those who might not (or never, in some cases) be?
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People will grow up as quickly as you allow them to. I say abolish student loans so that high school diplomas are worth more and 18-year-olds can enter the workforce.
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I would like some standardization across the board.Depending on the state and the subject at hand you can be an adult for some things at 14 and other things at 21.
If I want to buy a beer I need to be 21....if I rob a liquor store for beer and shoot the clerk I can be 'charged as an adult' at 14.
In ten states a girl can't consent to sex until 18 but can get an abortion at 14 without even telling her parents..
In 40 states someone can consent to have sex at 16 or 17 but if they send a nude pic of themselves to their lover they are guilty of distributing/possessing child pornography......You can be convicted of child porn for possessing a nude picture of yourself!!??
In Nebraska you're still a minor for most purposes until 19....in Alabama 21.
In some states you need to be 18 to get married.....unless you're pregnant,in which case 15 is OK....even though it wasn't legal for you to have sex in the first place.
When I was young I could buy cigarettes at 16/beer at 18/liquor at 21.Many places you can still buy cigarettes at 18.....but you need to wait until 21 to drink.
The voting age should be 25, and you should have to complete a basic test in economics., and you should have to file a tax return. The brain is not fully developed until age 25. If people don't have skin in the game, they shouldn't be allowed to make the rules. And if people are too stupid to know basic economics they shouldn't be voting. The stupid congressgirl from Westchester County shouldn't even be voting, let alone serving. And the morons that voted for her wouldn't even pass my test.
By that notion, no one who voted for Trump would pass your test.
Booze not included if they are stateside. You cannot buy alcohol on base if you're under 21. If you're overseas, you're going into public establishments of that country. I was in Germany. At 16, you could walk into McDonald's an order a Pils (why anyone would drink that crap, I don't know), so those in the military who were stationed there and under 21, as I was, can order all the drinks they want at those off base clubs or restaurants or whatever. The bases over there seemed to follow along with the laws in Germany as far as drinking age...so there we could go to a club on base and drink, but you cannot do that stateside.
Germany (and most of the entire world for that matter) is superior to the U.S in that respect. Our 21 year old age is puritan in origin...we do not want young adults having a good time. The fact that we infantilize young adults is a serious flaw of ours.
When I was young I had to be 18 to drink and 21 to vote. That has been reversed which was not better, just different.
The street interviews which are seen on TV from time to time clearly indicate that 18 year olds are no way ready to pose as adults.
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) I'm glad that I didn't have to wait until I was twenty-one to vote as my mother and father did. 
