Levelís of Maturity As humans we all display various levels of
maturity in our behavior. Generally we would expect that people
behave according to the levels of maturity of their years. In
other words, a forty year old would act like a forty year old
and a twelve year old like a twelve year old, and so on.
However, we all know that this is not the case. Many adults
never develop beyond a childhood level of functioning and some
teenagersí function at the adult level early on. I would like to
make it real clear, at this point, that I am not referring, in
this article, to those that are mentally challenged in some way,
and thus are not capable of emotional or mental maturity due to
a physiological problem. Iím referring to those who never
develop beyond a childhood level of functioning because they
choose not to, or donít realize what level they are functioning
at because of poor parental example as they were maturing. In
other words they are genuinely ignorant of the level of maturity
they are functioning at an