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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