The rights of minors

The second part of Virginia Hughes' Personhood series is here: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/18/personhood-week-do-kids-count/

Perhaps I missed it, but the evidence that the teenage brain is not fully developed - in particular, the part that inhibits risk-taking - has not been cited in the debates in England and Scotland about voting at 16. For me, the danger of being too bold is cancelled out by the ability to absorb information and analyse it, which in my experience is never higher.