A lot of different factors affect a person's political socialization. Personal factors, such as your family, social and economic classes, education and peer groups, all influence your political values. More general items, like the mass media and key world events, also affect your political values.
Growth plates are located at the ends of long bones such as the femur. It is the area from which growth occurs in the bone and is the last area of the bone to fully harden and turn from cartilage into bone.
An MRI study has shown that the growth plates at the distal femur and proximal tibia of 94% of individuals studied had finished growing by 15 years and all of them by 16 years of age. (j knee surg. 2002 spring;15(2):72-6.). In brief: By about 16 years. An MRI study has shown that the growth plates at the distal femur and proximal tibia of 94% of individuals studied had finished growing by 15 years and all of them by 16 years of age. (j knee surg. 2002 spring;15(2):72-6.).