Don&#x27;t forget that a couple of hundred years later, the teenager was invented. Prior to that, then pretty much at puberty you were deemed to be an adult, and you&#x27;d go off to work&#x2F;marriage&#x2F;both. (But it&#x27;s important to remember that puberty now is way earlier than it was then, mostly due to better health and diet, IIRC.)<p>I do find myself wondering what the next social step will be, as social maturity diverges even further from physical maturity...