Is a 24-year-old a teenager? Some researchers say yes.
, traditionally defined as the ages from 10 to 19, all the way up until a person is 24 years old. That’s right, in the future, people might still be called teenagers even though the wordThis idea of extending adolescence isn’t exactly new, though. In September of last year, a review published in scientific journalfound that teenagers today were engaged in considerably less “adult” activities than teenagers in the ’90s.
For instance, 1 in 4 high school students don’t have a license by the time they graduate, in comparison with baby boomers, who on the other hand, were mostly driving by the spring of their senior year. To the delight of parents everywhere, teens today are also having less sex than Generation Xersare going out much less—12th graders today are out of the house far less than eighth graders were in the ’90s. In other words, 18 looks like the new 13.
Several studies have pinpointed to a number of factors that have contributed to this failure to launch into adulthood from the generation that has been called everything from “the Founders” to “iGen” to.” For one, the recession and struggling economy has led college graduates straddled with debt to defer major adult decisions such as buying a house, and has even forced many of them to move back into their parents’ homes.
But the one element most researchers seem to agree on as a major cause in this delay in development is the rise of
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