2006-08-31 23:33:00 · 9 answers · asked by karun 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Because it goes by weight and not actual age.
2006-08-31 23:38:18 · answer #1 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a different context. For medicine, the issue is physiological process and above all body mass; by 12, one has sufficient body mass and a sufficiently developed physiology to safely take most adult medicines that are not directly hormonal in nature.
For legal decision-making, on the other hand, the issue is competent judgment. Traditionally in many countries, 18 is an age recognized as a time of shift into young adulthood from adolescence. In reality, because of developmental pattern changes, in the US at least, adolescence now extends into the early twenties at least, so 18 now marks the entrance into late adolescence. In any case, the brain's capacity for judgment and impulse control in particular does not appear, according to neuroscientific research, to be developed fully until around 18-20.
So it's just two different measures of full development.
2006-09-01 06:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because by then it's about the size of one's body and 12 year olds are about the size of small adults in most cases.
2006-09-01 07:13:27 · answer #3 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its about the size of the person not really the age, the average size of a person that age is about the same size as an adult.
2006-09-01 06:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by mack j 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably because doses are given on the basis of size... children around 12 begin to hit puberty n start entering adolescence which is near adulthood... does the answer make any sense ...err
2006-09-01 06:49:24 · answer #5 · answered by indian girl 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it goes by the weight of the person taking it.
2006-09-01 06:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
based on size and weight, just so they take the right amount.
2006-09-01 06:35:06 · answer #7 · answered by mickey g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know right??
i've been wondering too...i mean technically 12 is not even a TEEN
2006-09-01 06:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by krystal_engel 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because "teen" is not part of their vocabulary. What they mean is "not child."
2006-09-01 06:39:14 · answer #9 · answered by Kitkat Bar 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋