What's the overall claim in "Mandatory Service to Become an Adult" By Michael Thompson "I am more concerned with the issue of maturity than I am with the technical age of [an adult].
Researchers and observers have noted that while our children are getting brighter (I. Q. scores
have been going up for the last two decades), they are relatively immature for their ages in
comparison to earlier generations. Over-protected by their parents and spending vast amounts
of time in front of TV, computers and cellphones (over 50 hours a week by middle
adolescence, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), they are less skilled in the world, less
able to build friendships and function in groups, and more reliant on their parents..."