Gay-adoption and electoral age

And while Beaver (from I've Got A Cat Named Sophie) is writing about gay adoptions (biw; I can only say, that I agree with her), I'll write about the electoral age.

In Denmark you have to be 18 to vote. And it has been like that for 30 years. Before 1978 you'd have to be 21 to vote. And I think it's about time, that we reduce it to 16.
There is lots of arguments: The average Dane is 16,1 years of age, when they leave the folkeskole, and in the laws stated by the Danish goverment about the folkeskole (the Danish basic school with studens from 5 - 16 years of age in 0. - 9. grade), is says that the purpose of the school is to educate the studens to learn about democracy, partcipation, responsibility, rights and duties. All the things you need to be a good and well functioned citizen in the Danish society. So by saying that people doesn't know enough about the society in the age of 16, it's like saying our schools is crap and our teachers can't teach.
At the same time; in the age of 16 I can bye liqour, I can pay taxes and go to jail. I can even drive a tractor or a moped. But I'm not allowed to tell who I would like as my prime minister. That is completely fair, or?

"But many teenagers would just vote the same as their parents!"
83 percent of the youths have a oppinion about how Denmark should evolve. And 85 percent have a interrest in how we solve issues in the society. And those people would also be able to make there own oppinion about who they would vote at.
And if 16-year-olds got the right to vote, the parties would do more to bring there messenges to the young people and they would make there messenges more readable.

And I want to qoute a great dude;
"You have the right to vote - it's not a duty."

For the Danes; www.duf.dk - there's lots of stuff about 16-års Valgret.
But hey, take care :)