@Mikuchi I was thinking about this earlier today. Kids use to be treated as mini-adults. By the time they were 12 or so, families were putting them to work, either on the farm or in factories. Except for the upperclass/wealthy, kids normally were seen just wearing smaller adult clothing. There was a 99% Invisible podcast episode on the advent of children's clothing for everyone, along with the idea that childhoods were special and should be protected. Child psychologists like Dr. Spock and others paved the way for this new era of protected child development. We saw child labour laws emerge around the world in different countries; as well as structured childhood education.
Now, in some places, children as young as 12 can consent to this experimental vaccine, and even get puberty blockers, without the need to inform the parent. Some want to reduce the voting age to 17 (a tactic often used in South American autocratic nations; younger people are easier to manipulate).
We're seeing an emergency of lowering the age of adulthood and decision making. This is by adults who are often acting like children, with childhood style logic.