Adulthood: when does the turning point occur? A fourteen-year-old male was brought to court for killing a young man during a car journey. The hearing should not decide the punishment of criminals; it is a question of whether he should be tried as an adult or as a minor. How does the judge rule if he is an adult? Actually, how do you classify an adult? Adulthood is another concept that can be defined in many different ways. The idea of ​​adulthood may be seen as universal, but its form and content are specific to each particular culture or country. It's a large and complex abstraction and no one is expected to fully understand it, but can one country's ideas be better than another's? According to Kok and Myburgh, South African writers, the following aspects of adulthood exist: sense of responsibility, financial or material values, social obligations, family obligations, work orientation, environmental responsibility and acceptance of responsibility, self-concept, time orientation , civil responsibilities and religious sense (Kok). The transition from adolescence to adulthood is one of the most complicated and confusing processes a teenager can experience. It can be confusing especially because the teenager is not fully aware of what it means to be an adult. Many associate adulthood with the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed or the state of a person who has reached maturity or puberty. Others may disagree and say that a person's age or size doesn't matter. That age only matters up to a point. Once a child has passed the age of innocence and knows the difference between right and wrong, he or she has the ability to be responsible and make a decision that is right or wrong. Some might even say it's when you turn eighteen, others will say it's when you get your driver's license. On the other hand, it can be said that being an adult means gaining a separate identity, being able to financially support oneself and one's family, and being able to provide a home or place to call home. One of the adulthood concepts mentioned earlier was career orientation. . The Labor Code provision states: “No person shall be employed under the age of 15 years (or 14 years where the law of the country of production permits)” (Child Labor).