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| Subject: Adolescents at 24 Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:07 pm | |
| New research challenges assumptions about how we mature. Adolescents don't become true adults until their mid-20s.
THEY should be the healthiest people on the planet, the ''almost grown-ups'' still in the bloom of youth and full of dreams for the future. But today's adolescents are a troubled generation, marooned in a no-man's land between childhood and adulthood, prey to forces beyond their control.
Adolescence is a period of maximum risk and maximum vulnerability, according to scientists, as still-growing bodies and undeveloped minds hurl themselves into experimentation with drink, drugs and sex.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/adolescents-at-24-dont-worry-its-not-just-your-kids-20120428-1xrhz.html#ixzz1tNLEBeWR
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