Wanting the age for being an adult to be lowered from age 18 in all countries

I can imagine that if the age of adulthood lowered to be 13 years old, many people would take advantage of that, and likely would try to pressure them into marriage at that young age, and other things that would be deemed quite immoral.

I mean, if humans live on average till they're 70 years old, about 20 years of that is spent as a child and teenager, then you have about 50 years to be an adult, and do whatever you want to do, but in reality it's more like just doing whatever you have to do to survive. 

Sure, you are young and want to make your own decisions, and not treated like a child anymore, so do mature and independent things, get a job, do the chores, cook for yourself, have a good credit score, get your driver's licence, get your own car, and then by the time you're 18 years old, move out and find your own place to live. You don't have to keep demanding that others treat you as an adult, but you know what, you'll be living as an adult for approximately 50 years of the rest of your life, so I'd hate to tell you to enjoy your childhood while it lasts, because that's the last thing you want to hear.

I think that you would like your full freedom to do whatever you want to do, but even as an adult, you're not completely free, and you still need to sacrifice your time to earn a living. You have the choice of earning money or being homeless, so that's not much of a freedom if you were aiming for that.  

I can imagine that if the age of adulthood lowered to be 13 years old, many people would take advantage of that, and likely would try to pressure them into marriage at that young age, and other things that would be deemed quite immoral.

I mean, if humans live on average till they're 70 years old, about 20 years of that is spent as a child and teenager, then you have about 50 years to be an adult, and do whatever you want to do, but in reality it's more like just doing whatever you have to do to survive. 

Sure, you are young and want to make your own decisions, and not treated like a child anymore, so do mature and independent things, get a job, do the chores, cook for yourself, have a good credit score, get your driver's licence, get your own car, and then by the time you're 18 years old, move out and find your own place to live. You don't have to keep demanding that others treat you as an adult, but you know what, you'll be living as an adult for approximately 50 years of the rest of your life, so I'd hate to tell you to enjoy your childhood while it lasts, because that's the last thing you want to hear.

I think that you would like your full freedom to do whatever you want to do, but even as an adult, you're not completely free, and you still need to sacrifice your time to earn a living. You have the choice of earning money or being homeless, so that's not much of a freedom if you were aiming for that.  

Well marriage is a good example. Right now you can get married at 16 but only with parental consent. There is talk of raising this to 18 which would create an odd situation where for 2 years its legal to have sex with someone but legally impossible to marry them.

Now here the concern is parents may be pressuring 16-17 year olds into marriages they don’t want. But what is not as widely considered is there may be 16 year olds who are prevented from marrying because their parents don’t approve of the match. Too poor, the wrong race, maybe the wrong gender.

So instead of getting a parents consent why not switch it so it has to be a magistrate or judges consent. If a 16 year old can stand up in front of a judge and convince them that they genuinely want to get married and they know what that entails and no one is coercing them then why shouldn’t they be allowed to get married?

Remember there are some people with intellectual disabilities who want to get married but can’t because they are considered too vulnerable and the courts have taken their legal autonomy to make a choice to marry away. Ultimately that’s not fair. There needs to be a system that allows vulnerable people to do things that might normally make them vulnerable to exploitation in a safe way.

We don’t have that system and we NEED it. I don’t see why the same principle couldn’t be applied to teenagers.

i still live with my parents myself at 31 and dont feel any different in my freedoms than i had as a high school kid so not entirely sure what magic powers these kids expect to have aside from legal pedophiles camping outside school gates to take advantage of being able to legally groom kids that would be seen as consenting adults lol

im just lucky i havent been tossed out the house yet, if i was like these kids demanding to be adults you bet id have been tossed out at the age of 16 and been made to learn a very hard lesson. humility and respect and not demanding things when i have nothing probably allowed me to be tolerated this long in my parents place.