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Maturity
Most people believe maturity is based solely on age. This is not the case. Maturity is reached through experience the troubles and problems of life. Though it is more likely that a person doesn't 'start' maturing mentally until physical maturation at around adolecence and puberty, a child younger than that can have a higher level of understanding and maturity than an adult. This could happen if the child has traumatic experiences or is exposed to many of the problems people don't face until later in their life. While this is possible, the opposite is as well possible and a person doesn't mature until later in life than normal. An adult that has had most of their life taking care of for them and them not facing much of life's problems and therefore not gaining the necesary experiences of life. The more extreme the variation of maturity is, whether younger or older than normal, the less stable their frame of mind is and is more likely to experience a return to child-like behavior known as a regretion. This is more likely if a person develops independant behaviors earlier or later than normal due to what environment they're in during their life, but isn't necessarilly going to lead to regretion. For the most proper and average rate of maturity it should be closely around the same time of physical maturity though in this current time it seems that an overabundance of technology and goods mixed with under-appreaciative and spoiled generations has made mental maturation seem to take longer im most people.
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