Is age a mark of maturity?

[Kasreyn]

Age is not a "mark" of maturity to me. To me, a person's age merely represents a cumulative chance that he is mature (a process which I think has many grey stages leading to an eventual, fully mature state, which some never reach).

People mature at different rates, and besides, which type of maturity are you speaking of? Physical? Sexual? Intellectual? Emotional? Social? I matured intellectually first, then sexually, then physically, then emotionally, and social maturity was last (and I don't think I'm done with the last two processes =P). For other people, it goes in different orders.

I see age as more of a milestone that indicates that, since x amount of time has gone by, there is an average y chance that the person is mature to z degree. It would take an expert psychiatrist / sociologist / M.D. to tell you the exact values of y and z for each x of each maturity scale, though.

-Kasreyn