At age 14 you are expected to pay adult prices on our busses.
at age 16: you pay full adult fares on our railways,
pay income tax,
pay national insurance,
get a job,
Can legaly have hetrosexual sex,
smoke/buy cigarettes.
At 17 you can hold a driving licence.
At 18 you can drink alcohol in a pub..
See what i mean its all very confusing......................
2007-08-07 09:52:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I know what you are saying with all the different things at different ages, it is very confusing and even more with the drinking age probably going up to 21, and also laws possibly coming into place about young drivers under a certian age not being able to drive with passengers at night. *rolls eyes* Typically though, you are classed as an adult from 18. This will probably go up to 21 but who needs anything simple in life, hey?!
2007-08-07 10:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by x-Kaiekay-Kitten-x 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A great proportion will have matured come 16, but its little to say that the smart kids will have more determination to mature at a much younger age like 13+ which has a BIG effect but astounding as that maybe adulthood is recognized come 18 for the law permits the legals. Needles to say it doesn't prove that you feel like an adult, its just the age itself which is a marker to say that at this stage you should be behaving like adults. Your 18th is the (Introduction to young Adulthood) but now the law is trying to put straight that come age 21 your a full Adult - whatever term or difference 3 yrs makes is beyond me but your probably well underway with your life by then. But keeping in mind your responsibility's are very highly expected and if living by yourself and own a car: Nobody is going to pay last months electric bill that you might have forgotten about for you !
2016-01-03 23:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Stuart Campbell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
18
2007-08-07 10:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by Buddy 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
16 is also the age at which you can have homosexual sex, too, since Sutherland v United Kingdom 1997, although it wasn't until the end of 2000 that the government finally was able to pass the bill through the House of Lords to amend it to 16 (previously 18).
You're wrong anyway, a male can legally have heterosexual sex at ANY age.
To reflect on some of the above answers, the age at which you can be prosecuted for a crime is 10 (the law of doli incapax, reduced from 14 to 10 to accommodate the prosecution of James Bulger's killers) and the age is probably 21 for lorry driving just to ensure you've had enough driving experience (and can see over the wheel).
2007-08-07 10:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by quierounvaquero 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
16, it is the age you can move out, have sex as you have already stated, lottery and drink some sort of alcohol at pubs, and can enter a pub on your own, get married, get a full time job. 16 is the adult age. And by the way, the person who said you can only get banged up from the age of 18-you are wrong. You can get banged up for life at 15/16.
2007-08-07 10:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by gr_bateman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
at 14 , 15, 16 and 17 there are still things you can not legally do, at 18 all these things become available to you... so 18 is the answer.
2007-08-07 11:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's 18
2007-08-07 10:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by elizabeth6991 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well since you posted in the Law section, you become an adult with respect to the law and can be tried/prosecuted as an adult at 18.
2007-08-07 10:02:39 · answer #8 · answered by 203 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
at 18 you are an adult but the way some people behave it should be 25, sorry to all you mature 18 year olds
2007-08-07 10:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by jeano x 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i think some things like driving a lorry are 21 so maybe thats when you become an adult??
2007-08-07 09:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by richard c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋