Margaret Mead complained that the sheltered lives of modern adolescents were robbing them of an improvisational “as-if” period during which they could safely experiment with who they’d ultimately become; the result of this deprivation was a lot of acting out.
What does this mean, exactly? Encourage them to be entrepreneurs? :) later: pretty much yes. Start a business, get a job, help the family survive when parents are gone (more common in 18th c. With poorer medicine) etc. also ‘complains’ that child labor laws rob adolescents of the opportunity to be of value, experiment with careers/identities.
