Cultural phenomenon where American adults remain in prolonged youth due to inability to afford children or homes, while simultaneously becoming professionalized and losing flexibility to make youthful mistakes
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Infantilization
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"But I think the reason society is becoming less flexible about age gaps is because of the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of extended adolescence, not because these gaps are inherently predatory or unethical. Thus a growing inclination to condemn relationships between consenting adults actually af"
"You hear a lot about how American adults live in a kind of 'extended adolescence', which is true because they can't afford to have children or homes and it's easier for corporations to market to infantilized consumers who live frivolous lives. More and more people are becoming simultaneously infanti"