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When can you buy a gun, vote or be sentenced to death? Science suggests US should revise legal age limits

  • Written by Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Vietnam War protests led to a lower voting age. The Parkland shooting could push similar reevaluations.AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Societies have long grappled with where to draw the chronological age boundary between adolescence and adulthood. The United States stands apart from most of the world in that it uses different ages for different rights and...

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