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I think both of these posts are pretty unthoughtful. I think the problem with maturity is that "kids" are expected to grow up a lot less slowly and much later than our parents were and the same with their parents before them. For my generation (I am 22) going off to college and getting your degree is the norm. While most of us are living on our own and required to have much more responsibility than we ever had before we are still not forced to grow up like our parents for example. Most of our parents were married for the first time by my age now. They may have had us around this age (like my parents for example).

Responsibility was forced much earlier on people in their early twenties years ago. That is not the case today. After we get out of college a lot of us are still going to go home and live with our parents until we get our feet planted on the ground. I see a lot wrong with that in todays society. We are expected to grow up slowly and the mistakes that our parents might have made are really tried to be avoided, but when we are not forced to grow up and take some responsibility I think a lot of people fail to ever grow up.

Mucked your comments make sense, but in a really overgeneralized and no offense but a stupid way. To say that we have no structure is completely wrong. I think that we have a much slower structure than the one that you may have had when you were growing up. And the Keys, at the same time to just blame the fact on our lack of responsibility on being young is just not thinking really at all. The early 20's for Mucked was when he probably became an adult and started to have responsibility so that age is no really considered young in his generation. For us, were still kids because we have not been forced into a situation where we do not need to act as adults just yet.

I also want to say that I am sure there are a million other factors as to why these kids just thought it would be cool to act like ballers and just completely blow their rolls, but I think you can really attribute it to the stucture of some of our social institutions today and how we are eased into responsibility and adulthood. Not because we are not raised without any structure at all or the fact that we are just young and stupid.