Re: The invention of Childhood

Much of what passes for juvenile rebellion and anger ( enough that its assumed that being antisocial is a necessary phase for teens to go through ) is what you see in any adult who is incarcerated or enslaved. Being antisocial is not a necessary consequence of being a child, but it is the obvious outcome of treating a person as if they were not a person.

Moreover, it's been noticed that societies where young people assume full person roles might still present youthful risk taking (which any econometrist can tell you is rational when you're young, by the way) but not in ways that are anti-social, ie, no "rebellion" in the Western sense.