At minimum, this dictum creates a strong presumption for prosecutors to invoke in future such cases (involving both children's and adults' statements).
"Only a few years and you'll be an adult!" This statement is usually issued by well- meaning adults with a surreptitious wink at my mother.
This paper reports on the adult consensus statement based on the responses of the 9 adult Intensivists: 2 Anesthetists, 4 Respirologists, 2 Internists, and 1 Surgeon; it included 7 men and 2 women.
"Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults," the statement read.
"I've not met a mentally competent adult whose statements have a shorter half life, but it's pretty hard to back away from this one," he said.
But a handful of rebels turned their backs on that Barbie-goes-to-Hollywood look for a more insistently adult red carpet statement.
With regard to adults, a consensus statement from the International ECMO Network proposes 20 cases incorporating at least 12 respiratory adult ECMO cases to be required on annual basis [ 19].
Miller et al. (2006) reported that over the previous two decades, the percentage of U.S. adults accepting the statement had declined from 45%to40%0%; evolution denial had increased from 7% to 21%.
I know this is something that our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, and everyone under the sun tells us as young adults but this statement has never resonated with me quite like it did this year.
"While we have reservations about charter schools, we recognize that many children attend traditional public schools that are inadequately and inequitably equipped to prepare them for the innovative and competitive environment they will face as adults," says a statement from the NAACP.
