Adolescent

An adolescent is a person who is in puberty or has gone though puberty but is still considered a minor. Adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood, with changing expectations and capabilities that are not always in-line with each other. Expectations include both self expectations, and the expectations of others.

The term adolescent overlaps to a great degree with teenager. Strictly speaking, a teenager is between 13 and 19 years old (the numbers that end in -teen in the English language). The ages of adolescence vary by culture. but is generally considered as age thirteen to fifteen.

Adolescent Rejuves
Because of the inherent limitations in rejuve Technology in terms of memory size and processing capacity it is impossible to rejuve humans to any age over the age of twelve. For this reason the age of thirteen is canonically considered a milestone in the rejuve Universe at which age children are considered mature enough and responsible enough to be given rights and responsibilities.

Becoming Adolescent for is also considered a milestone as no sentence of criminal rejuvenation allows the penny to become adolescent. As such this is the time when pennies typically become

Adolescents and spanking
Spanking is generally considered a child's punishment, so for an adolescent who is striving to be accepted as an adult this can be humiliating. However, some parents (both in the rejuve universe and the the real world) consider that it is a particularly appropriate punishment for childish behavior. Contrarily however it is often during the adolescent years that people first discover spanko tendencies which can cause spanking to be an ineffective punishment.