Do you think if society was structured differently (i.e pre-adult education was actually deemed useful and allowed people to get job relevant skills) that age range would move down?

The idea that 21-25 are easily tricked by older people rings true but I’m also thinking there’s a lot of things about current society that infantilises those people, or rather, gets them to actually act immaturely and see themselves as immature

society tries to push people towards having kids later in life because society fully expects a societal downturn. subconscious dooming about the economy has gone on since at least 2008 and you can actually see diagrams like these:

you can see how it starts declining after 2008, probably because people understood that the financial world was not as stable as they had believed and hardships are incoming, and that causes people to have children later in life (which actually has been a historical pattern for centuries).

"I was twenty-five, a man in those days, master of a large plantation..."

(Which is both from W.E.B. Du Bois' The Comet and the movie Interview With the Vampire. Did not know the former!)

Online discussion and arguments led me to believe there's a significant difference in how fast Gen X grew up vs. Zoomers today, and later research confirmed it. We're growing up slower, which is a sign of a society healthy enough to support that. Kinda odd to me though.

At 16 I was having sex, driving a car and working a bag boy job. Very few of us had cars, but I don't know of any peers who didn't have a license at 16, and almost every one of us passed first try. Losing one's virginity and working a job at 16 wasn't unusual one way or the other. Girl that snuck over and took my virginity was 14.

People today are not hitting those milestones until their early 20s.

Your brain is still developing until your mid to late 20s so there will always be a bit of that.