Should adolescence be abolished?

According to Robert Epstein's book, "The Case Against Adolescence", adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without. His book shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put in place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Where this continuum still exists in other countries, there is no adolescence. Isolated from adults, American teens learn everything they know from their media-dominated peers the last people on earth they should be learning from. Epstein explains that our teens are highly capable in some ways more capable than adults and argues strongly against infantilizing young people. We must rediscover the adult in every teen, he says, by giving young people adult authority and responsibility as soon as they can demonstrate readiness. Do you agree that the adolescence stage of life is unnecssary and that teenagers should have the freedom of true property rights, to sign contracts, work, start businesses, live on their own, and make decisions about education and health care? Here is the article I got most of my information from. a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-danger-of-treating-teens-like-children.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-dange…/a