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Help with peer responding to classmate's discussion post
When I turned 30, my mom told me, "Now that you're 30, I'll listen to your opinion about life", which I found highly offensive. That is, until I reached my 30s and especially into my 40s.
That is why I chose the age of 22. Because that is the age (for this discussion) of adolescence in the military, this will include my experience and those with whom I come into contact daily while still on active duty. The main problem seen with today's adolescence is, "The period between puberty and adulthood may well last into the late 20s, merging into adulthood itself." (Saylor, 2012).
Having joined the military a couple of decades before today's sailors do, it didn't remove me from horrible actions and decisions. "Adolescents may engage in risky behavior, such as smoking, drug use, dangerous driving, and unprotected sex in part because they have not yet fully acquired the mental ability to curb impulsive behavior or to make entirely rational judgments." (Saylor, 2012), I too had this problem, like today's sailors do.
I also fell into the mistake that a lot of sailors do. "Most divorces occur for couples in their 20s, because younger people are frequently not mature enough to make good marriage choices or to make marriages last." (Saylor, 2012). I cannot tell you how infuriating it is to hear a ~22-year-old talk about their happiness in getting married; statistically, you'll fail. Not all do, just most.
"Adolescents may be capable of making informed choices about their future (e.g., terminating a pregnancy) but do not yet have full capacity to override impulses in emotionally charged situations that require decisions in the heat of the moment. Unfortunately, judges, politicians, advocates, and journalists are biased toward drawing a single line between adolescence and adulthood for different purposes under the law that is at odds with developmental cognitive neuroscience." (Casey, et al., 2008)
A bigger impact can be seen, that although an adolescent's brain has yet to mature fully, the courts do not take that into account when sentencing adolescents who didn't make a great decision due to lack of frontal cortex growth. Need Assignment Help?