Generation Next: Child vs Adult

Summary:

As part of the BBC's Generation Next programming, the BBC's Robin Lustig asks what does it really mean to be an adult. He explores what "youth" means in different societies and cultures worldwide. In this programme Robin looks at the legal, social and cultural frameworks separating the "child" from the "adult".

Language:

English

Description:

According to the dictionary, an adult is "a person who is fully grown". A child, therefore, is "a person between birth and full growth". In this first programme he focuses on aspects of life such as sex and marriage, work, voting, politics and crime. He talks to young people around the world - including Albania, Ghana, India, Korea, South Africa, the US and the UK and finds that there's much more to childhood and adulthood than biology.

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