REFLECTIONS ON A LIFES JOURNEY: HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG?
In the early tribal society era, rites of passage for womanhood usually started with the first menses, as that indicated adulthood, fertility and marriageable status. In manhood, the young men had to go out in the wilds and make their solo kill(s), or to on some sort of solitary quest, to prove that they could become one of the tribe’s hunter/warriors in order to provide meat or protection for their tribe/family. In our own modern-day society, neither necessity is/was applicable, so there is no really clearcut passage into adulthood (although some rednecks around here think that if you can hold yer liquer, spit your chaw without choking or dribbling down your chin, shoot enough deer, or beat up undesirables, that qualifies you to be a ‘man’).
