People recognize a difference between children and adults. What events (experiences or ceremonies) make a person an adult? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer
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Adulthood can be defined as a stage of biological; physiological and psychological change in a child that makes an impact on his or her character and social status. Those aspects are sometimes inconsistent and contradictory. A person may be biologically an adult, and have adult behavioral characteristics yet may be treated as a child if one is under the legal age of majority. Conversely one may legally be an adult but possess none of the maturity and responsibility that define adult character.
Attainment of adolescence age is the event among many. Some sects perform rites and ceremonies on this occasion. However most modern societies determine legal adulthood based on reaching a legally-specified age without requiring a demonstration of physical maturity or preparation for adulthood. Some more events that are indicative of adulthood in the legal perspective are the eligibility to driving license, voter card and getting into a government job and getting married.
Adulthood is generally believed as the time when physical maturity is complete. One reaches their maximum height and secondary sex characteristics form such as body hair and facial hair, voice lowers in pitch especially noticeable in men, and menses begin in women. Sleep patterns change in adulthood, as adults typically require less sleep than adolescents.
Furthermore a common theory is that adulthood is the real test of life is to experience the world as a first person instead of through the parents. Then the adult can pass those experiences down to younger people and they can experience them when they grow up.
Summing-up, important traits of an adult are: - self-control, emotional control, stability, dynamic personality, ability to govern self and deal with life, sense of responsibility, accountability, commitment, reliability, vision, patience, endurance, experience, understanding, courage to face difficulties and objectivity with perspective and reality.
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