When I think of the emerging adulthood essay I just always end up thinking that we have to stop being so prescriptive. While I certainly understand that this will happen and many kids go through similar patterns. However, I also think that if we focused in children as individuals, not some abstract idea that is entirely uniform. Certainly kids will mature at different rates, but this idea ofmaturing is also somewhat of a socially constructed idea. Like many points in sociology it seems that the potential problem may be that our society chooses to define its ideal person much to narrowly to be realistic, much less a broad consensus.
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