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Quote of the day: ADOLESCENCE

July 2, 2010

ADOLESCENCE

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that…adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money….For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

— Thomas Szasz