Newsweek:Why Teenagers Grow Up So Slowly Today

<p>And I’ll just throw out there that the idea of (a) kids growing up too fast in one context (watching R rated movies at the age of 6, seeing all kinds of stuff on the internet, becoming cynical about role models, etc) and (b) not developing maturity and self reliance by the end of teenager-hood are not necessarily contradictory.</p>