Eighteen-year-olds can vote, enter into legal contracts, serve in the military or be tried as adults. Yet 18-year-olds, with very few exceptions, are entering into the treacherous transitional period between adolescence and adulthood. Despite a number of legal indicators that suggest they are adults, most parents and adults who live and/or work with this age group -- not to mention those in the midst of this transition themselves -- see it differently.
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