Up until what age do you consider a person a teenager

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: maziwanka
i just use the technical definition. why make it subjective when there's an objective def out there

exactly

 

[habib89]

Originally posted by: dullard
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eightteen
Nineteen
Twenty

I consider someone who is 19 years and 364 days a teenager. I consider someone who is 20 years and 0 days to be not a teenager. I consider anyone who is over 18 to be an adult.

word up.. being an adult means taking responsibility.. i don't think it has anything to do with an age.. you can be 18 and be an adult.. you can be 25 and not be an adult

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: CPA
So you're saying a person can be both an adult and a teenager? I think they're different and, thus, should be seperated, but you think they can be both and only based on the fact the number, grammatically ends with "teen"?

Sorry for taking so long to come back, and for the typo with the bold that I copied and pasted. I posted in a rush as someone came to my door.

Yes I am saying that someone who is 18 or 19 is BOTH a teenager and an adult. The problem is we have social definitions, gramatical definitions, and legal defintions. All three would put the teenager/adult border at a different location; they all disagree slightly. I allow for the disagreement. No one is one day a perfect teenager and the next day a perfect adult. There isn't a specific cutoff. Instead people gradually transition from teenager to adult.

The perfect example is the typical 19 year old college student. Sure at times (jobs, school, church) that person acts much like an adult. But through him/her in with 4 friends and suddenly that person often acts more like a teen (or even a child). That person has an internal struggle to meet the needs and demands of both the teenage life and the adult life. He/she is both.

The trouble with this is that, by your own admission, there is no way to define specifically when people become an adults. It is my opinion that you must use the gramatical definition otherwise the word doesn't really have any value for defining an age group.

I stand by my response and the dictionary definition of the word teens: the numbers 13 to 19 inclusive; specifically : the years 13 to 19 in a lifetime or century.

Edit-Actually, I don't see that being a teen necessarily means that you aren't an adult or that when you become an adult you are no longer a teen. I always took teen by its gramatical definition; of a person in his/her teen years. So, while a person can be mature enough to be considered adult, with most of the rights of one, they can still be in their teen years. I don't think teen should ever be used in reference to anyone other than those between 13 and 19 years of age.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
The trouble with this is that, by your own admission, there is no way to define specifically when people become an adults. It is my opinion that you must use the gramatical definition otherwise the word doesn't really have any value for defining an age group.

I refer you to my first post.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
The trouble with this is that, by your own admission, there is no way to define specifically when people become an adults. It is my opinion that you must use the gramatical definition otherwise the word doesn't really have any value for defining an age group.

I refer you to my first post.

We are in agreement then.

 

[StageLeft]

19. Funny, I noticed the commentators refer to the women's gymnists as "young women". most of them are girls in their peak teen years.

 

[azazyel]

Originally posted by: CPA

0-18 months Baby
18 months to 3 year Toddler
4 - 11 Child
12 - 13 Pre-teen
14 - 18 Teenager
18+ Adult

This should solve this

0-18 months Baby
18 months to 3 year Toddler
4 - 11 Child
12 - 13 Pre-teen
14 - 18 Teenager
18 - 23 Young Adult
24 - 34 Adult
35- 45 Old
45 - 60 Old Fart
60 + Waiting to die