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For puberty developments, adding female ejaculation is important, near the period section. MarioLuigiGCFan (talk) 14:26, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done without a reliable source. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:02, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic phrasing in "Wisdom" section

The phrasing of the paragraph makes it seem like that wisdom can be quantified ("increases between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five"), when wisdom is a qualitative description of a person's life experience. If anyone has access to the article which is behind a paywall, please add information about the 5 wisdom criteria mentioned there and which metrics the study uses to quantify wisdom. Threedotshk (talk) 12:09, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lede sentence is patently absurd, on its face

"...physical and psychological changes that generally occur from[...]until legal adulthood." (emphasis mine). Law has no effect on anyone's physiology or psychology; if adolescence is defined by material reality, then an arbitrary point in time defined by a state cannot be part of the definition. Further, the age of legal adulthood varies from place to place: it is 18 in some places, 21 in others, and a few other variations also exist. Do people in 18-majority countries magically attain physicsl and psychological maturity three years earlier than their counterparts in 21-majority countries? Clearly not! Suggestion (for now): change "legal adulthood" to "late teens or early 20s". This describes nearly the exact same thing, but does not arftificially tie the definition of a physical andpsychological state of development to a legal definition. 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:99BE:44C4:D550:2282 (talk) 22:52, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]