In different countries around the world, people become ‘adults’ at diffei ages. Being an adult means having the right to do certain things such as get a part-time job, vote, get married, or get a license to drive. It also means accepting the responsibilities that accompany these rights.
In many countries, sixteen or eighteen is the age at which a person becomes an adult. Young men and women at this age can get a part-tim job, and begin to receive an income of their own. They no longer have t rely on their parents for money all the time. In many parts of North America, sixteen is also the age when one can obtain1 a driver’s license; i 10 England, it is seventeen.
There are responsibilities that go along with both of these rights. Getting part-time job means that you have to pay income tax.2 Driving a car demands that you follow certain rules and regulations such as getting an paying for insurance to drive.
15 Voting is another right that marks the passage3 into adulthood for many young people. In the United States, Canada, and the U.K., young people live the right to vote at the age of eighteen. With this right also comes sponsibility. For young people to use their right to vote wisely, they must ive an understanding of the needs of society, and they must also learn >w politics4 work.
group of teenagers in Alberta, Canada, want the Canadian voting laws langed. They think that people should be able to vote at the age of cteen. They argue that if teenagers at sixteen are old enough to get a irt-time job, pay taxes, and drive, they are also old enough to vote in actions.