Age Of Responsibility Essay

It is often said, the current system in place for determining the age of responsibility for minors should be improved if we can start the driving age at 16 and then every year thereafter the next major responsibility is added. With this in mind, us teenagers wouldn’t have to worry about having all these responsibility at one specific age. If we had a troubled childhood it can affect our organizing behavior and planning “One of the things that deprived childhood causes is problems with prefrontal cortex function, so somebody who has had an unstable home life is more likely to have trouble with planning and organizing behavior and with inhabiting impulses than somebody who has had a stable life”. During an interview on the National Public Radio show, “Tell Me More” Sandra Aamodt a renowned neuroscientist reveals that, having a deprived childhood could affect their organizing
Another thing is studies have shown a female brain matures 2 years faster than a males. Aamodt asserts that, “ Females' brains develop about on average two years earlier than male brains, so you're more likely to have a late developing male brain than female” (“Brain Maturity”). When we turn into “adults” our brain tends to lose it’s creativity and tend to stick to a path because maybe we are told no, but when we were teenager’s our brain is more scattered. “They looked at neural signalling differences in the two ages between adolescence and adults to see how brains were networked. They ended up finding out adult pathways were much more constant as if mapped than the younger subjects whose pathways were more scattered or spontaneous or, dare I say, creative”. Simmonds argues that adults have a pathway or mapped way of thinking unlike teenagers whose pathways are spontaneous. (“I’m 17”). Besides age is just a