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    My speculation is that teenagers react so vile to adults trying to fit in partially as a unwittingly defensive mechanism. Teenagers have some social skills, but not all and thus having separate youth culture provides spaces for learning - adults trying to fit in are possible OP in those spaces and keeping out adults altogether might help with abuse prevention as well.

    I don’t really know how to test or research this speculation though.

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      Well, to start, you need an old psychologist, and a young psychologist.

      And probably several psychology grad students.

      And then you can have a scientific study.