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When Does Maturity Set In?
An anonymous reader writes "Two Dartmouth researchers claim that they are one step closer to discovering at what age human maturity sets in. From the article: 'For the study, Baird and graduate student Craig Bennett looked at the brains of nineteen 18-year-old Dartmouth students who had moved more than 100 miles to attend college. A control group of 17 older students, ranging in age from 25 to 35, were also studied for comparison. The results indicate that significant changes took place in the brains of these individuals. The changes were localized to regions of the brain known to integrate emotion and cognition. Specifically, these are areas that take information from our current body state and apply it for use in navigating the world.'"
Here is a link to and science program in Australia called Catalyst. I actually managed to watch this episode and this reminded me of it and I was bored enough to google for a link.
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What it says is that the brain doesnt mature fully until the age of 25.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1424747.h
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I've seen 10 year olds whose had a parent killed with more maturity than a 16 year old.
Indeed. My wife and I adopted two children from russia. Since then, we've done a lot of research into russian children who either spent most of their time in orphanages, or were taken from their russian* parents because of abuse or neglect. There are dozens of cases where a sibling group of three children or so, made up of, say, a 2 year old, 4 year old, and 6 year old, end up with the 6 year old going out and finding food for the younger children, even to the point where the oldest child is starving so that the younger ones can eat. Some of these sibling groups end up adopted by american families. When this happens, the oldest child can't seem to let go of this parental sense of responsability for the younger kids. It's almost like part of their childhood has been lost. So I agree. I think it has to do with the presence of responsability. Nothing makes you grow up faster than having to care for a child of your own.
* Not to single out the russians. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of this sort of bad situation in every other country including the US.
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