(07-02-2009 12:59 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Government is a huge problem with why there are a lack of grownups. It has set up arbitrary age limit laws that have resulted in keeping children from maturing naturally. These laws have in effect...extended the childhoods of the youth of America.

Just the mere inability of a someone under the arbitrary age of 15 not being able to work a job is in itself a barrier to maturing and growing as a person.
I think we all would agree that you learned much more about interpersonal relationships, money management and life skills while "working" than any other method of learning.

Is it no wonder that when kids graduate from High School that most of them have NO clue what it takes to make it in the real world. The majority of them have been prevented from growing up by a system that has held them back.

Agreed. And, after considering Huxley's view on things, I believe this was somewhat intentional by the social engineers of the mid 20th C. (While I like the article above, I think it falls way short in summarizing the activities that have lead us to this Age of Adolescence. It starts many 40 years too late.)