I am honestly also so weirded out how people just internalized that kids are just dumb. People will just parrot this idea of "minors are not neurologically developed", and like... no one who is parroting this has actually read any neurology paper on brain development, or actually knows anything of what is actually developing and what is not.
And I just have so much hatred for people who parrot ideas without even putting effort into understanding them. If you actually read the associated papers, you would know actually what abilities do develop over time. But you would also know that a lot of how those abilities develop and at what point is actually very clearly bound to culture, and cultures that do not treat minors like things actually generally show different brain development in them. Because, guess what: brains develop very dependent on cultural context.
Those same people also do not get why adultification and parentification are actually a problem. Spoiler alert: it ain't because you let kids make decisions, it is because of the pressure, the expectation to perform and often associated emotional neglect.

















