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Many countries consider eighteen-year-olds to be adults, while other countries don’t. What do you think about it? Give your opinion and some relevant examples based on your own experience.

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Nowadays, it is important to have a clear idea of what age we should call someone an
adult
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 most countries consider a person should be
eighteen
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 years, some regions feel every child above fifteen years should start to live on their own. In my opinion, I feel until someone turns
eighteen
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, it is important to live under their parents' guidance. We could witness in certain communities where parents push their kids to get married at early ages,
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, some ask to take up a full-time job when they are teenagers. As a consequence, it could completely destroy their freedom and I will be elaborating on
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 topic with examples in the forthcoming paragraphs.
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, we should never let our children get married at the early stages of their lives.
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, countries like Iran think that a girl should consider an
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 at the age of thirteen.
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, they should be married before they turned fifteen years old.
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, most of these girls end up being sex slaves of an old man for the rest of their lives.
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, it is important to have a clear outline of when we should consider a young as an
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, we could see plenty of children start working as soon as they feel they are capable enough to do so. A survey done at Pune University in India found out that over 250,000 teens are working as sex slaves while 1,500,000 work in different types of hourly-based jobs. In Sri Lanka, we could see many young teens work at farms, and garages and do various kinds of part-time jobs. Parents should not use their kids as an object and consider them as adults before they turn
eighteen
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. To sum up, some countries push their kids to take up jobs at early ages or push them to get married which could completely destroy their childhood.
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, in my opinion, it is important not to consider anyone below the age of
eighteen
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 as an
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 and give them unnecessary responsibilities which they cannot carry out by themselves alone.
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