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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Legal adulthood"”.
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Under Age: Redefining Legal Adulthood in 1970s America
… changes to the minimum age laws that define the legal boundaries between childhood and adulthood in the United States. By altering the voting age and the legal age of majority during the early 1970s, legislators effectively lowered the legal age of adulthood from twenty-one to eighteen, and …
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Social work with separated young people and human rights : cross-national perspectives on practitioners' approaches
… by binary conceptualisations of childhood and adulthood, affording children different rights from adults. In practice, separated young people are treated very differently depending on whether they are considered 'children' or 'adults'. While many face disbelief from authorities regarding their …