Some kids are raised differently or forced to grow up early. For example, if a teenager has five younger brothers and sisters, and is raised by a single mother, he will most likely have to make adult decisions. He will probably have to get a job and raise his siblings like a parent would. He will learn how to act like an adult and know the consequences of his decisions. This teenager thinks like an adult, acts like an adult, makes adult decisions, and is looked upon by his siblings as a

n authority. He has passed all of the criteria of being an adult. The only problem is, he does not look like an adult. If we say he is not an adult because of his age, then we cannot say a thirty-nine-year-old man that lives with his parents and is dependant upon his parents for everything is more mature than the teenager that is raising his siblings and helping his mother. But we cannot do this because the age does not matter. As a result, this teenager has conquered the stereotype about the age.

So age does not matter, what is important when determining if a person should be considered an adult is the way he or she was grown. People associate maturity with these factors because when they see kids at a certain age that have not been shown the ropes of adulthood, they tend to think all kids at this age are the same way. Just because they are kids and have not been taught to be an adult does not mean they cannot be trained to be so. It is simply the fact that most of them are not taught to be adults because they do not have to be, so we automatically associate certain ages with the typical level of maturity of their peers. Adulthood depends on the person, and the person’s ability to make ad

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