Are children going up too fast or too slowly?

Parents are concerned that their tweens grow up too fast. They dress like adults and are exposed to popular culture 24-7. There definitely is a pseudo sophistication that tweens and teens display today. Yet as they grow they are slow to achieve the life skills that young adults easily attained in past generations. On one hand they act adult and on the other hand they progress to real adulthood much more slowly. In the New York Times blog, Lisa Belkin writes about this subject and a study from Oregon State University published in the journal for Transition to Adulthood.
Click on The New York Times link to get the article.