Adolescence:
A) is a life stage for all people around the world.
B) is a result of people who lived in the twentieth-century developed world.
C) has been a life stage throughout history, over many centuries.
D) has been a life stage only since the seventeenth century.

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Adolescence as a distinct stage of life is largely a result of social and economic conditions in the twentieth-century developed world, where extended education and delayed entry into the workforce have created a prolonged period of dependency and development between childhood and adulthood.