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A teenager is a young adult, however, they are still children by law until the age of majority, in some countries it is 21 in others 18.
The website (link below) discusses this issue. It's very insightful and talks from a partially scientific perspective.
Treating teenagers as full adults is as harmful to their development as treating them like children. Teens are adults in progress, not adults. Allow them the freedoms that they've demonstrated that they can handle maturely. Allow them the things for which they've demonstrated that they're capable of the responsibility. It's a step by step process and parents are there for guidance along the way. It's true that there are any number of teens who have had adulthood thrust upon them and they have succeeded in dealing with it. That doesn't mean that those teens didn't wish that they had a nurturing adult to support them and help them through it.
The confrontational nature of the relationship between teens and parents is nature's way of moving teens forward to think for themselves. It doesn't mean that parents are stupid or that teens are monsters. In societies that live in tribal groups, teens are given the responsibilities of adults, such as obtaining food and maintaining shelter, bearing and raising young. Those societies also have the parents, other adults, and elders that support these efforts and continue to nurture and teach. In our modern society, there are so many complex things that people have to negotiate in order to survive, in order to support one's self that the learning curve is far longer than the natural physical development process.
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