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I would say this: if people are living a lot longer, it would only be logical that some stage development would skew by a few years.

What causative factors of people living longer, have any effect on someone's early adult development? I fail to see any connection whatsoever.

I don't know, maybe the fact that we are living longer reduces the urge to get out and see the world for the younger people.

Back when people were dead by 40 there might have been a greater sense of urgency.

Plus these last couple of generations have been so protected by their parents, that perhaps we've made them afraid to leave the nest. What have they been taught? There is a boogieman behind ever corner and if you ride your bike without a helmet you will die. If you sit in a car seat until you are 12 you will die.

Thanks God some of the kids were not raised that way or no one would be in the military.

Speaking of which our nephew when he was doing his stint recruiting for the Marines, said the hardest thing was getting the moms to let them go.

Then you’re not paying attention. People are staying youthful longer - they are doing a lot of things differently. Some of this is good, some of it is not, but to deny it is to close your mind.

If people entered adulthood at 18 when life expectancy was 35-45-55 etc - that indicates maybe 30 years of the rat race of responsibility. If they’re living to 85 now, it doesn’t make the human psyche and body able to handle 50-60 years of the rat race.