Legal age should be lowered to 16

Although I will try my best to argue my point, I do really need specifics as like I said, no matter what, the age of 16 you will have legal rights, i.e. It is your legal right to go to school. So to say "16 is too tender an age to allow teenagers to be given legal right." is rather confusing as to what you actually mean. I will start off by saying, a teenagers influences will depend on their environment, a lot of things, young teenagers will do weather they are legal or not, lowering legal age would reduce the amount that teenagers breaking the law, also lifting weight off their shoulders. for example, drinking alcohol, even in the UK the legal age for drinking is 18, however, most teenagers will drink, weather its heavily or lightly. Some will even be drinking at the age of 12, and I'm not talking about just a glass of whine on special occasions with the family, some teenagers will host house parties in which alcohol is very available to them. At the age of 16, (although you claim; "At this age they merely have the sense of judgement "), they would have a much better judgement than that of the age of 12 as they would most likely be used to drinking and know how much they can take before they are too drunk. At the age of 16, we are allowed to start smoking, of course I am not saying that it is a good thing that such a young age would start smoking, however, most start at an even younger age in secret, usually around 13, it is best that the child did not smoke in secret and an adult knows. To buy cigarettes you must be 18. Using this system, it makes it easy for adults to control how much the teenager is smoking. By the age of 16, teenagers would have completed their sex education course. They would know "what's what". They would know how to be protected and so on so forth. I believe 16 is a perfectly fine age to be given a legal right to have sex. By this age they are able to decide weather they feel ready to have sexual intercourse or not. Most teenagers during this time find that they are in a 'serious relationship' and are more than happy to have sex with their partner. what we need to understand is that attitudes to sex have changed since the past. It is no longer seen as a big of a deal, there are some people who wished they had waited a bit longer before having sex, but most of these people had sex at again, a very young age (13/14/etc). another reason for some legal rights to be lowered to 16 is that; 16 is the age that teenagers wish to experiment and try out new things, it is best to do these things whilst they are young as if they did these things at the age of 35, they are likely to ruin their lives and careers. In other words, they will have experienced that specific right and will not feel the need to be curious about it and "suffer" not trying it out. It is all part of growing up to try out new things, it is in fact part of the personal life cycle. Another reason is preparing for the future, i.e. Being able to get a job, go to college (ready for uni), leaving home, etc. Things like this will prepare he teenager for the future so that they are ready and prepared by the time they turn 18 to face the world as a mature adult.