The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 days agoBeing a womanmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up11.07K
arrow-up11.07KimageBeing a womanmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square175fedilink
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days ago teenagers English isn’t my first language nor am I from Western country, so a question: 18 and 19 are also teenagers?
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoThey’re considered “teens” both linguistically and culturally?
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 days agoYes. 18 year olds are technically adults in the US, but that doesn’t mean their bodies can support and birth babies as well as when they’re older.
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days ago that doesn’t mean their bodies can support and birth babies as well as when they’re older I think they are restricted in that regard biologically way less than psychologically.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-29 days agoTeenager’s brains aren’t fully developed yet, either. Both mothers and babies have worse outcomes overall when the mothers are teenagers. It’s more dangerous.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days agoCulturally they’re in a transitory stage. Legally adults, but they’re new to it and it’s frowned upon to sexually pursue them if you’re much older because they’re new to adulthood
minus-square0x0@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days agoFrom thirteen to nineteen they are teenagers.
English isn’t my first language nor am I from Western country, so a question: 18 and 19 are also teenagers?
Yes.
Yes, “eighteen” and “nineteen”
They’re considered “teens” both linguistically and culturally?
Yes. 18 year olds are technically adults in the US, but that doesn’t mean their bodies can support and birth babies as well as when they’re older.
I think they are restricted in that regard biologically way less than psychologically.
Teenager’s brains aren’t fully developed yet, either.
Both mothers and babies have worse outcomes overall when the mothers are teenagers. It’s more dangerous.
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Culturally they’re in a transitory stage. Legally adults, but they’re new to it and it’s frowned upon to sexually pursue them if you’re much older because they’re new to adulthood
From thirteen to nineteen they are teenagers.