glc11
Well-Known Member
I have no idea when the age of accountability is, but I do find this interesting as it relates to a funny thing I like to say to my kids right now.I accept the bible's position on the age of accountability but after examining the human standard for a human brain to be fully developed and maturity to make decisions based on studies I found that those results are in agreement with your findings based on the scriptures you cited.
At What Age Is The Brain Fully Developed?
It is widely debated as to which age the brain is considered “fully mature” or developed. In the past, many experts believed that the brain may have been done developing in the mid to late teens. Then along came some evidence to suggest that development may last until at least age 20. These days, a consensus of neuroscientists agree that brain development likely persists until at least the mid-20s – possibly until the 30s.
The fact that our brains aren’t developed until the mid 20s means that “legal adults” (those age 18+) are allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains. Someone who is 18 may make riskier decisions than someone in their mid-20s in part due to lack of experience, but primarily due to an underdeveloped brain. All behaviors and experiences you endure until the age of 25 have potential to impact your developing brain.
https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/
My husband and I have four teenagers! We went to a parenting class recently at the church and one of the teachers was saying that the prefrontal cortex does not start to develop until age 25 and is done by about 30. They were applying humor and saying “so when your kid freaks out and does dumb things…. Remember… ‘no prefrontal cortex”!
So now my kids just love it when we get in a debate about anything and I love to jokingly remind them about how I have a prefrontal cortex and they don’t !!
This is a description:
This brain region has been implicated in executive functions, such as planning, decision making, short-term memory, personality expression, moderating social behavior and controlling certain aspects of speech and language.[4][5][6] Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).