Kids these days, am I right? By kids, of course, I mean adults who refuse to grow up and the society that enables them. 

In the United States, "kids" can stay on their parents' insurance plan until they are 26 years old (thanks, Obama!). Now a medical journal argues that one doesn't move from adolescence to adulthood at around the age of 20, as once thought. A person is actually an adolescent until he or she is 24. My parents were married homeowners with two children at that age. One generation on, you're still considered a child yourself.

The article argues, according to the BBC, that this needs to be taken into account when writing laws, such as availability of support systems for youth.

Why the later age? Largely because that's how people are behaving. They are, as The BBC states, "delaying life's milestones." Since the 1970s, the average age when entering a first marriage has gone up nearly 8 years, and people are living with their parents until the age of 25. Dr Jan Macvarish, a parenting sociologist at the University of Kent seems like a sane person who understands that institutionalizing infantalization is not helpful. She said: 

"Older children and young people are shaped far more significantly by society's expectations of them than by their intrinsic biological growth,"and "Society should maintain the highest possible expectations of the next generation." We, as a society, should not be "pathologising their desire for independence."

Stop it, society. Listen to Dr. Macvarish.