Seminar-16, beautiful, voter

I read the article and annotated it by highlighting it, and writing down notes on the side of the page. I talked about how I didn't think that the voting age should be lowered because I don't think that eight teen year olds are even ready to vote. Others in my group pretty much said the same thing and almost all of us agreed that lowering the voting age would be a mistake.
I didn't agree with the author when she said "Why stop at voting". I thought that if we lowered ages for other things like marriage, six teen year olds would be making a huge mistake. If adults are getting divorced a lot, then imagine what the divorce rate of teens would be. I don't believe that they are ready to make that decision at that age. The part that I did agree with was how there should be a test to see if six teen year olds were able to vote. According that you would be choosing the president of the United States.
A major point was talking about lowering other things. Such as lowering the marriage age and drinking. If we lowered the drinking age then that would be a major mistake because then teens would be more tempted to drink behind their parents back. And marriage is to big of a responsibility. Teens are still in school and there is no way they could help support that, especially if they had kids.