How ideas of 'adulthood', its rights and responsibilities, are changing around the world
- Written by James McCue, Lecturer in Psychology and Criminology, Edith Cowan University
Ideas of when 'adulthood' starts for young people are changing around the world.Shutterstock
Around the world, the idea of adulthood - when it happens and how it is defined - is being challenged.
In Australia, the Greens’ Jordon Steele-John introduced a bill to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote; Malaysian minister Syed Saddiq Abdul...
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