Allow six-year-olds to vote? No, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds | Zoe Williams

Children tend to be more progressive and idealistic than their parents

The age of adulthood is by definition arbitrary. If everyone matured at the same, fixed rate, it wouldn’t be a human process. Indeed, maturation happens at varying speeds across different categories within the same individual, so I’d say I was easily old enough to vote at 16, but nobody should have given me a credit card until I was 32, and I’ve got the county court judgment to prove it.

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What’s to stop parents having even more children, once there’s so much enfranchisement in it for us?

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