Are teens less rational than adults?

Teens tend to overreact over situations that are handled more light-hearted by adults, but it’s just their way to overcome a new and unexpected situation or an inconvenience. When a problem shows up, adults might know how to fix things but teens may not, so they alarm, panic and seek for help or, if they don’t recognise the gravity of the issue, they can end up not caring much about it and making things worse, whereas actually teenagers are just learning how to control their feelings and how to fit in society.

Legal age in Italy: let’s say a few words.

In Italy young people are considered legally adults at the age of 18 and that’s when they can vote, drive, get married, drink alcohol, smoke, work full-time, buy a house and so on. I know there are countries like the USA where they can do all of that at 16 except for drinking (they must wait until 21) so legally these rights are given to young people when the Government thinks it’s the proper time to. But is there a real teen-adult border to cross? It mostly depends on the brain maturity as people around 17 can make their decisions rationally and take their own responsibilities, but of course not every teenager is as mature as the others and there is not a way to determine that. So I guess that, complying with the school system and the social construct, 18 is a good age to legally be adults.

Sara Dal Soglio 1D