>>149350366The counterpoint here is that this is all a fairly recent phenomena in the grand scheme of things.
People talk about the age of virginity lost, moving out, getting married, and owning a house.
But we're seeing every typical landmark of the teen years shooting upward. First part time job, drivers license.
This has been an increasing silent crisis for over a decade now and it basically boils down to
>The economy>Technology meaning you don't need these to socialize>Failures in parenting to properly push their childrenThese are important things because otherwise what you have are college-aged young adults who don't really have the proper markers to differentiate them from children.
You'll even hear college professors ranting about it with shit like parents calling them like a PTA meeting instead of students taking the initiative on office hours like they're supposed to be doing