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This is unfortunate. Confirmation is the least understood sacrament in Roman Catholicism. In most of the world,in the Latin Rite, confirmation and first Eucharist are administered at the same time, around 7 or 8 years of age. In the US, the bishops withold the sacrament as a way to keep kids coming to religious education through high school. It is supposed to be the "rite of passage" from childhood to adult, much like the Mitzvah in Judaism.
The Eastern Rites still administer confirmation as it supposed to be administered, to adults and infants immediately after baptism. Confirmation is one of the sacraments of initiation.
There are quite a few Catholics who have simply never bothered being confirmed, and have never gotten the graces from it.