The Teenage Brain is Physiologically Underdeveloped

And image the world where anyone from the age of 13 could vote, as technically 13 year old are teenagers. There are anomalies, brains that develop faster and brains that develop slower. The majority seem to develop after teenage years or right at the end. I did not say that they are more reckless, by which I assume you mean that they are more reckless than other teens? I read it. It may have existed since then but to be fair life expectancy was a lot different (source C) which would have had an impact. And again, this is the same as the developing countries argument except that before it was even more different. Females could not even leave the house unless they went to church or had an escort and even young males wouldn't have had much freedom. It can be edited by anyone so it may not all be correct. Now explain why teens who actually are forced into a difficult situation and are still reckless? According to you, if they are taken out of the safe school environment and given proper responsibilities they should become responsible, not immediately but overall the should. But then there are plenty of teens living in poverty that have to provide for their siblings, themselves, or even their parents, so for example, why are the pregnancy rates amongst them so high? (source D) Actually, 16-year olds have the highest risk of dying in a car accident, teenage drivers are least likely to wear seat belts, and overall there is a ridiculous amount of deaths of teenage drivers per year. When I say that I do mean that they died in car crashes, not that they died while being drivers. (source A, B) It is less likely that they will be reckless though. Usually recklessness is about having fun, doing things that are thrilling. Suicide is not part of that, depression and other issues as such can cause suicidal tendencies. Teen pregnancies are higher in developing countries. (Source D) You can argue that a lot of the time they are in wedlock, however that does not sound responsible either, it is more than likely that the pregnancy was due to consummating the marriage without contraception. In a lot of developing countries the couple would be in poverty, in likely case they would have a hard time providing food for themselves and the child, health care would probably be even more rare as even in developed countries like America healthcare can be expensive and not accessible by all. Is bringing a child into the world when they will in all likely hood suffer responsible? Parental love is important but it is arguable that not starving is even more important. You need money to get drugs, if food is a luxury then I doubt you'd have money to waste on getting high. I did not explain myself correctly, what I was meant to say was that even teenagers who are given responsibilities can still be reckless compared to adults. I have talked about this throughout this post in more detail, and hopefully I worded myself better. And what exactly would be the reasons? Surely if you know that you won't be able to care for the child that you will have if you have unprotected sex is just irresponsible? And a teenagers brain would be forced to develop if they are in poverty since they would have to make the difficult decisions etcetera, so does that not show that their brain is predetermined to be reckless? In addition, in one of your previous paragraphs you listen unprotected sex as a reckless thing and pregnancy is a result of unprotected sex. Though you did state that the brain adapts, looking both ways when causing the road is necessary and not doing it can be fatal so should the brain not adapt to make at least the majority of teens do so? Sources: A: http://www.rmiia.org... B: http://www.dailymail.co.uk... C: http://www.infoplease.com... D: http://www.who.int...