Word: adulthoods
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...went to Harvard from 1959 to 1963. Let me make it clear to younger readers that almost nothing is more devastating than a childhood without playfulness, youth and young adulthood without dreams or romance without fantasy...
...only to discover that he really is innocent. She can sleep over, he allows, but he gets to be on top -- the top bunk, that is. Eventually, however, in a subtle and charming scene, Josh learns how a man and a woman can share the same bed, and that adulthood has its own pleasures...
...between puberty and marriage, used to be about 6 years for women, 9 for men. Now, those figures are closer to 10 and 12. Today's teen-agers have to spend 3 or 4 more biological years than their grandparents in the nebulous limbo between childhood and adulthood...
...obvious solution is to condense secondary school by two or three years so that students can finish earlier. Shortening school would make graduation and the physiological onset of adulthood roughly contemporaneous, as they ought...
Allowing teen-agers to assume the responsibilities of adulthood when they are biologically ready will reduce the length of the "teen" years and encourage the formation of responsible adults at a younger age. Ironically, this measure can itself further the cause of social stability which moralistic social critics seek to strengthen by mere rhetoric. Certainly, an educational system which complements and responds to physical maturation must be superior to one which ignores or seeks to contradict that growth...