Do men or women mature later?

Question

Which of them do you think behaves more childishly?

RavVid · Accepted Answer

Young men 18 to 25 are of prime military age for a reason. They have yet to start thinking 'this could all go horribly wrong' which is exactly what you don't want a soldier to think about.

Young men show a lot more risk taking than young women. Quite possibly they show less social skills as well because since at birth boy babies focus on mechanical things whilst girl babies focus on faces.

I also think that playing lasts longer with men than women because the male focus is on the physical. With that mechanical focus we are more likely to wonder what will happen if we throw a large cardboard box of cigarette lighters onto a blazing fire pit.

Pretty stupid but I would still like to see what happens!

Lets not forget that girls should be having babes at 16 so evolution needs quicker maturity from girls. Circa 300 BC most Egyptian guys were dead by 25 whilst women tended to make it to 35. Child bearing started about 16 and girls needed to be mature enough to keep the baby alive.

meepmeeperton · Accepted Answer

Women mature faster in the sense that they become more socially aware earlier than men. So middle school and high school girls start thinking about love and romance and what their wedding will look like and stuff like that, while boys are still lighting each others farts on fire.

After that, though, women remain rather childish. They do stuff like start petty arguments with their boyfriends or husbands, gossip a ton at work, have a hard time with finances and spontaneously spending money, and have to regularly give themselves “self care” to endure normal adult responsibilities.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though, just how it is. At that point men have matured enough to take care of the responsibilities women find difficult, and they can have a good relationship and marriage.

CrabCakes11 · Accepted Answer

Women mature faster mentally by far, both in puberty, early childhood, and beyond. You don’t see very many women punching holes in walls

Nikki1989 · Accepted Answer

Men are lucky to mature mentality by the time they are 30.

HappyWoman34 · Answer

Some men are mature. As are some women.

DishLady · Answer

Every guy and girl is different. For example, I've had to be "like a grownup" since I was 5. Why? Bc I'm a first-genner and had to translate all kinds of things to my folks from day one at school... and I had to be REALLY trustworthy for them to have faith that I was telling them the right thing when I translated...

By contrast, my sister was raised without the dual identity factor and our folks were in a better place financially (not just starting out), so she never saw their struggle. Till today, though she's only a few years younger that I am, she constantly acts like she's a toddler... and expects everyone to put up with her *. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We can chalk it up to older-younger sibling dynamics, but I've seen so many people up to this point in my life that I think it's just a case of Peter Pan syndrome.

Similarly, some guys are REALLY MATURE from an early age while others also fall into the Peter Pan syndrome. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Developmentally (at ages 5, 14, 17 and 25), endless pediatric studies show that girls' neurological and emotional development tend to be higher than guys, while physiologically guys tend to be larger that girls. Girls develop their hand strength (and smaller movements) sooner than guys, but guys gain things like speed a little faster. (There's more, but you get the idea...)

MrOracle · Answer

I think in the past, women probably matured faster, but I'm not sure that's true anymore, at least in western culture. Western culture has been infected with Feminism since the 60s, and one of its objectives is to remove as much responsibility and accountability from women as possible, and no one can mature without those things. Left-leaning men are usually no better, as they are often coddled as well.

The only good news is that there is a growing backlash as the many failures of the current standards are evident for all to see.

cince200X · Answer

Hey Mrs. Anonymous!

1. As puberty starts, female brains jump to at least two years older than their physical age. Males, however, usually take until their late teen years or even early twenties to match their female mental age.
2. Females are mostly bound to the home than males so they have a good introspection, stable mindset, observation skills helps their maturity skills.
3. Being contact with her mother most of the time, they got a glimpse of maturity or we can say exposure of maturity mindset of her mother while boys are most of the time outside the home.

Note: Exception are everywhere so please let me know if you got a Superb point.

PointlessNonsenseGuy · Answer

Women mature faster until about age thirteen or so. A thirteen year old girl is way more mature than a thirteen year old boy.

Boys keep on maturing, though, slowly but surely.

And then somewhere around their mid-twenties, women start to get less and less mature. A thirty-five year old woman is about as mature as an eight year old girl, and nowhere near as mature as a thirteen year old boy.

Evidence:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/women-paying-big-money-scream-113626691.html

Anonymous · Answer

I used to think it was men. But now watching a lot of these women in videos acting like little kids, acting out in public. No accountability for a lot of their actions. Now I’m thinking it’s women. But maybe women still mature faster. I say maybe because I think there’s more emphasis put on women to mature quicker because of Mother Nature. Women have a certain time period to where they’re most fertile, their best years as far as how gorgeous they look. So she is more likely to mature faster to find a mate, to get married, start a family, etc. Men on the other hand not so much. A dude can still get a girl pregnant in his 40s. So I don’t think we’re on the same time clock as women. Plus I think men in general just have more fun. We can sit, laugh at videos for hours, or just be happy w a pizza at home playing a video game. A lot of women seem like they’re always mad, upset, sad, etc. I think women really wonder how can this f*c*er just be happy the way he is lol

Unit1 · Answer

Lets hear it again how they say "Girls mature faster than boys"

Lynx122 · Answer

I think women mature quicker in the beginning but then some get stuck because they get enabled by people around them so they don't progress much anymore. And men mature slower in the beginning but they usually keep progressing more steadily at least that's the case for me. But there are also guys who stagnate as well.

Makeushiver · Answer

Men mature later. There are two ages that women seem to mature more quickly than men. One is immediately pre-pubescent. The second is late teens and early twenties. Men, some at least, have difficulty in breaking away from the guys and often need to get validation from the group they used to hang out with in their late teens.

DrPepper12 · Answer

I thought this was a joke question. I can say with 100% CERTAINLY that women mature faster. The facts: i taught AP HS. Freshman year the ratio was 14:14 on average. By senior year AP classes are 3 guys to 21 girls. there's no doubt guys are on average 18 months behind the girls.

handsomelad70 · Answer

Men mature later because from puberty, women can bear children, which usually tends to make them more mature, while men (boys) the same age can still be not far from little boys. This trait continues into adulthood, as women want to start a family at an earlier age than often-randy men of that age because women's fertility ends quicker than men's ability to stud and sire children.

BetaBucks · Answer

Female matures much faster, both mentally and physically. But males mature more in the end, both mentally and physically, in my opinion. Well, the physical part isn't an opinion. It's basic stats. But the mental part is my opinion.

normalice · Answer

Who ever can get away with maturing later tends to do so, regardless of gender. Women are just thrown to the wolves a little earlier in life so tend to not be allowed to get away with it as long.

HighValue · Answer

Women mature faster until they are 16. Then men mature faster and more. The majority of women have the same maturity from ages 16 to around 40.

DarkLegacy · Answer

It is obvious what you are trying to do here otherwise you would not be anon, women start to mature first and then do not make much progress past 16, whereas men continue to mature.

Anonymous · Answer

Girls mature earlier. It's nature, they only have another 10 or 15 years to have children once they turn 18, so they need to get down to business right away. Guys can goof off forever, they have the whole life to get serious.

Anonymous · Answer

women only mature faster than men during the puberty years. after that, their maturity plateaus and men's maturity exceeds them

Anonymous · Answer

men mature later, but women stop maturing at the age of 16. Its why you see women from the ages of 16, til their 70's acting entitled, hateful, and petty.

_SilentWolf_ · Answer

In general, research and observations show that men mature later than women.

Anonymous · Answer

Women mature faster, because women typically want to start a family first. But that does not make most women mature. There's a lot of women today that reject family and everything about it.

OddBeMe · Answer

Female children seem to faster, perhaps as a biological aspect of puberty. Luckily that doesn’t drive our society anymore.

Anonymous · Answer

men who watch porn, play video games and vote MAGA never mature

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Men might mature later but most women never mature past age 16.

jahaims · Answer

Mentally? Physically? You can look up the stats. Plenty of information on this

bobby_bush_eater · Answer

Obviously this is a big generalization but it's definitely more so men

dragoblack · Answer

It differs from person to person, its not gender/sex specific

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Women mature faster because smaller glass fills up faster.

onedarkcloud · Answer

I don't know I still have not matured yet. A work in progress. YEAH NO!

dolemite58 · Answer

I don't know I’ve seen people of both genders be very immature even in their old age 😂

justabuddy · Answer

I don't think it's that simple. I think it's life experience, not gender.

Apple1996 · Answer

It depends on the person not the gender

naartjie · Answer

Do mean do they ever? Lol

MisterWack · Answer

Both. Why isn’t there a choice for both?

SweetJoyGirl · Answer

Men most definitely mature later.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Men.

paledreams · Answer

Men mature later, sigh 😞

LiamJHayden · Answer

In general, women mature earlier.

Emmytexrex · Answer

I think it depends on the individual

MrDaveAPSI · Answer

Women mature EARLIER, but men mature faster

wiltingrosepetal · Answer

Men mature later

MK1997 · Answer

It's not an opinion.

PeterLegg91 · Answer

I'd say us guys do

Iron_Man · Answer

Men do

shortster · Answer

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