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Growing Down?: Adulthood, Education, and Infantilization in America

Growing Down?: Adulthood, Education, and Infantilization in America

Beaumont, C. R.

Paperback

Series: Education

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN13: 9798274787383
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 16 2025
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For most of human history, the journey from youth to adulthood was clear, expected, and honored. Today, that path has collapsed into a maze of contradictions: more schooling but less knowledge, more rules but less responsibility, more protection but weaker adults.

In Growing Down, C.R. Beaumont cuts through the noise with a medic's precision and a veteran's blunt honesty, exposing how American institutions-schools, laws, politics, and digital platforms-have engineered a culture where young people are kept dependent long after they should stand on their own. Drawing on international comparisons, hard data, and forgotten history, this book shows how systematic infantilization emerged, why it persists, and how it threatens everything from personal resilience to democratic stability.

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