Kids growing up too fast?

I went to a party yesterday, where there was a large social divide between the boys and girls. Primary school stuff, where boys hardly talked to the girls, and the girls hardly talked. It was quite disturbing, as the birthday girl, was only a grade younger than me. I would assume that there wasn't much of a social divide, but I was mistaken. My grade was much rowdier in my eyes, getting drunk every weekend, and coming to school the next Monday eager to tell tales. I was always the sober one though, looking after the friends because I am a good boy. So I sat at this party, wondering what could spur on the argument that kids are growing too fast. Maybe it was the group at the party, or the social class I am usually with, but there was a large difference. The kids I was with at that moment seemed so young, and innocent. Much different to what I expected at my 17years of age.

So as I went home, I thought about this further, and determined it to be the social class that I must've been with. Admittingly, the girl who was having the party, goes to church with me so she is fair innocent, and I went to a public school for my first 3 years of high school education, so I saw a lot of conflicting features.

But this didn't solve the question on why people believe that kids grow up so fast, so I discussed with a friend to the wee hours of the night on this.

We discussed the increasing disturbance of children, yes not teenagers, but teenagers dressing up, or down, so they think they look good, but to everyone else, they just look like miniature sluts. Now, I am all for letting little kids off to learn from their own mistakes, but I believe there should be some kind of barriers. Clothing them properly, and teaching them manners should be essential.

This would be all fine, and good, but then there is the increasing number of new high-school kids, around the age of 12-13, who think that since they are in high-school now, they have the luxuries of someone reaching the end of their education, around 17-18. Same rules apply. We do not need to see you try and dress if you are in your 20's. Its disturbing enough. All for letting you run off with your free minds, but when you go promoting pedophilia, you can hardly blame them. Well actually, you can, but the children in question, and parents are to blame as well. This again, can be blamed on advertising companies for selling sex, or clothes companies for making monstrous clothing for younger ages, when really, revealing clothing like that should be left to the professionals.

Basically, in my discussion, my friend and I determined that, kids try to grow up way too fast, with kids wanting to go from 13-19, while 19yo's want to go back to being 13yo. The structure is very complicated. This discussion comes after my trip to the beach where I couldn't tell the difference between a 13yo and a 17yo from the back because they were both wearing bikinis.... ewww... ewwwwwwww