The Trend Toward Prolonged Adolescence in USA

Ylonda, experts tell us that on average Americans now reach emotional maturity around age forty.  See Morris Schechtman's Working Without a Net.  He argues that the prolonged adolescence in our society requires that we set standards and hold folks to them, since they do not have the self-discipline of an adult to do it.  Young women, by the way, tell me that it is harder and harder for them to find young men who are mature enough to marry and accept the responsibilities of marriage.  As a result, they, these women are in their early twenties, are often willing to marry men around age forty who have shed adolescence and reached emotional maturity.  Nobody likes to hear this; it is out there.