1/22/2006

A thought-provoking piece (Eternally Teenaged) argues that adolescence in the US now extends into the early 30
s.

The author, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says that the average age of first marriage in the US is now 27.5 years old, and that the average age of first childbirth is now 26.5 years old.

The author says that the average