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Lawmakers reasoned that if you were old enough to vote, you were old enough to drink, Mr. Parent said. That philosophy continued in 1971, when Congress lowered the voting age to 18 in response to fury over the draft during the Vietnam War, which conscripted thousands of men between 18 and 21 into war.

An adult is a person who has attained the age of majority. The age of majority is the legally defined age at which a person is considered an adult, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities of adulthood. The age of majority is defined by state laws, which vary by state, but is 18 in most states.

Why is 18 considered the age of adulthood? Because that's when people get to vote.Retaining a higher age of majority didn't seem to make sense if lawmakers were going to let young people vote at 18, so states began using 18 as the new measure for legal adulthood.

Accordingly, an adult is someone who accepts responsibility, makes independent decisions, and becomes financially independent.

According to the U.S. government, a child officially becomes an adult when they turn 18. That's when they can vote and start paying taxes.

The age of 18 is widely accepted as the start of adulthood but those one or two years younger occupy a strange twilight zone where they are given many freedoms and responsibilities but denied others.

An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.Adult means relating to the time when you are an adult, or typical of adult people.

Lawmakers reasoned that if you were old enough to vote, you were old enough to drink, Mr. Parent said. That philosophy continued in 1971, when Congress lowered the voting age to 18 in response to fury over the draft during the Vietnam War, which conscripted thousands of men between 18 and 21 into war.