I’m taking an entire class on nature vs nurture and it’s pretty much impossible to separate the two. However it should be noted that ‘maturity’ is a social construct so it’s usually more beneficial to look at empiricist (nurture) perspectives on it if you have to choose one

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I think it’s kind of a mix of both. I have an older brother and he got away with wayyyy more tantrums & acting a fool than I ever did growing up. It def always felt like he got the “boys will be boys” treatment and I got the “be a proper young lady” treatment

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It’s really both along with the way women tend to focus more attention span wise so it’s also how we study and are willing to learn past basic knowledge and world views

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I was just looking more into this, because the sentiment that daughters are more difficult than sons always irked me. In my mind, boys would objectively be harder to raise every time because they have a propensity to behave worse, struggle with school, get in fights, break laws, etc. compared to girls. Part of it is the brain’s slower development in boys, but another part is that many parents falsely assume boys are able to left alone and neglected at an earlier age in childhood

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Literally only a biological thing not mental

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No one’s done an experiment where they raised a bunch of boys and girls in the same way to factor out cultural differences, so we will probably never know for sure. But it is related to puberty. Not sure what factors influence timing of puberty, but young girls have been entering puberty younger over time. Presumably this shift is because of better nutrition, but hormones in food and other factors could be at play

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both, i definitely matured faster than my brother even though my mom is much tougher on him to be mature,

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