ABSTRACT
All cultures provide opportunities for their children to develop into adulthood membership of their societies. However informal or formal the arrangements are, growing children will be expected to accept some beliefs and reject others, and they will become familiar with rules of reasoning in arguments in their culture. That granted, the extent and nature of socialization and education varies greatly within and across societies. In the multicultural and complex quasi-democracies full-time formal education can last more than 15 years for the majority of any age cohort. For many, education and training will continue on an ad hoc part-time basis for the whole of their working lives and even beyond. In many societies offspring can remain in the parental home for more than 20 years, a situation in which their elders will have continuing requirements and expectations of them.
