But it also isn't determined by age.
Can you back your statement with any credible study ???
Since you were supporting the Mullah decision , I thought you would know that they want the girls to be married as soon as they hit puberty , which is precisely what remains the bone of contention here , maturity doesn't come with age or puberty , but for legal purposes it has to be defined , else everyone has their own interpretation which makes for a messier act and misuse of the laws . Think of it here , what 9 , 12 or 14 year old girl or boy is going to refuse his parent's choice or decision ? Where's the free will ? Is the purpose of the life , merely to breed and produce children ? Is that what Islam teaches us ? Where's the heath of the people and education fit in here ? Where are the other important things in life ? Where are the requirements of the era being taken into consideration ?
In the last decade, a growing body of longitudinal neuroimaging research has demonstrated that adolescence is a period of continued brain growth and change, challenging longstanding assumptions that the brain was largely finished maturing by puberty [
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3]. The frontal lobes, home to key components of the neural circuitry underlying “executive functions” such as planning, working memory, and impulse control, are among the last areas of the brain to mature; they may not be fully developed until halfway through the third decade of life [
2].
Adolescent Maturity and the Brain: The Promise and Pitfalls of Neuroscience Research in Adolescent Health Policy
Systems responsible for logical reasoning mature by the time people are 16, but those involved in self-regulation are still developing in young adulthood. This is why 16-year-olds are just as competent as adults when it comes to granting informed medical consent, but still immature in ways that diminish their criminal responsibility, as the Supreme Court has noted in several recent cases. Using different ages for different legal boundaries seems odd, but it would make neuroscientific sense if we did it rationally.
Adulthood: What the Brain Says About Maturity - NYTimes.com
An understanding of how the brain of an adolescent is changing may help explain a puzzling contradiction of adolescence: young people at this age are close to a lifelong peak of physical health, strength, and mental capacity, and yet, for some, this can be a hazardous age. Mortality rates jump between early and late adolescence. Rates of death by injury between ages 15 to 19 are about six times that of the rate between ages 10 and 14.
While the details behind the changes in volume on scans are not completely clear, the results push the timeline of brain maturation into adolescence and young adulthood. In terms of the volume of gray matter seen in brain images, the brain does not begin to resemble that of an adult until the early 20s.
The scans also suggest that different parts of the cortex mature at different rates. Areas involved in more basic functions mature first: those involved, for example, in the processing of information from the senses, and in controlling movement. The parts of the brain responsible for more "top-down" control, controlling impulses, and planning ahead—the hallmarks of adult behavior—are among the last to mature.
NIMH · The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction
Suit yourself .
Lets not go into what Maulana Sheerani has been caught doing. ....
You know that is exactly , what I want to hear right now . What happened and when , I only know some members of IDC were caught after returning from the American embassy for ingesting C2H5OH .