Social Issues

A social issue is anything that affects one person or a group of people. Social issues can usually be debated. Some social issues are things like young teens getting nose jobs, boob jobs etc, people wanting to demolish a historic site/building and things like that. One social issue that I found interesting was the one on teens having cosmetic surgery to enhance their looks. The amount of teens undergoing cosmetic surgery was very large and surprising. In Queensland they have banned teens from undergoing cosmetic surgery completely but NSW have put a 3 month "cooling off" time for the teen to think about if its really worth having surgery. I believe in NSW decision for the "cooling off" period but i think it should be 6 months instead of 3 to give the teen more chance to think of the consequences. The teen should also go see a counselor to go discuss what those consequences are, not necessarily trying to talk them out of it, but to give them advice and find out what the reasons are for that individual. Some of the reasons could be because the teen is being bullied at school because of their looks, or they simply want to just enhance some of their features. I also believe that their should be an age limit of 16 to be able to have cosmetic surgery. Otherwise we could have teens at the age of 13 getting things like boob jobs or nose jobs while still only just starting to have their body mature.