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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]College students are legally adults but psychologically and physiologically they are not adults, the male brain doesn't fully mature until 25.[/b] OP, your son just turned 18. That's young for college and presumably to be living along for the first time.

OP, are you paying for tuition and living expenses? Either way, I'd continue monitoring. Facebook is a public space. Twitter, too. You're not tapping his phone![/quote]

This is nonsense, why do you keep posting it? There are millions of highly competent, responsible men under the age of twenty five. There are men under 25 who run companies, who are single parents who manage households, who manage large sums of money, who have immense responsibility that they handle like a competent adult. There is no such thing as a fully mature brain, your brain will change throughout your life. Brain growth and development is partly influenced by environment, by experience, by genetics and by a host of factors. Yes their brains are adult brains, but given the factors involved all adult brains are not the same. Not all adult brains make good decisions, and someone who has been over protected or not given a lot of responsibility is going to have some catching up to do. Executive functioning (organization, planning, memory) actually peaks in the twenties. That doesn't men someone before or after the peak can't competently organize, plan or memorize. In the majority of the world, youth take on adult responsibilities far younger than here and manage them much better. Irresponsibility and immaturity has far more to do with our culture and society - overindulgence, no survival stress, disposable time, cash and energy due to all basic needs being met, upbringing, social context and peer influences, less life experience or adversity, less responsibilities and independence in the preceding years etc... In the American college culture, drinking is part of that culture. [/quote]

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