Lexus Op-Ed, The voting age should be changed.
Alexcia Scheinman 9/1/25 Why the voting age should be 25 and NOT 18: Following what you know, gaining control, clinging onto the familiar, and often straying from the peculiar. A few short words provided, that distinctly describe adolescence. Parents have the impact to sway and children have the power, amongst a certain age to stray. When teenagers stray, the information that has been collected from people they have been surrounded by still remains. This is overlooked when power given to teenagers is greater than their individual knowledge. This is why I believe the voting age should be changed to 25. The article titled, Parents attitudes and beliefs : “Their impact on children’s development”, from the encyclopedia on early childhood development goes into detail about the emotional regulation given by parents, often naturally, and how parents attitudes and beliefs are contagious to teenagers who haven’t been given the amount of time to cr...