ABSTRACT
More recently, neurological advances have led to a major correction of Piaget's belief that cognitive development was complete by the end of adolescence. In fact, it seems that brain maturation continues, albeit much more slowly, throughout early and middle adulthood. Young adulthood is the high tide of consciously chosen selfhood when, for a short time, the waves of the individuality may lap shores unknown to our families. Many young adults travel to 'spread their wings' or to 'see the world'. Young men and women from depressed rural areas typically migrate to cities, for the obvious reason that work is easier to find, and prospects better. Travel in young adulthood is the logical continuation of the adolescent's urgency to break free of family rules and restrictions. In small-scale, tribal societies, career choice as we understand it did not exist. Roles and duties for both sexes were largely prescribed, and most people were generalists, because there were relatively few specialisms.
