Why do children lose their innocence when they come of age?

Question

Why do children lose their innocence when they come of age?

Answer 1

The only answer to this is that they choose to loose their innocence while others choose to keep it, innocence is an illusion and is brought about by the individuals kamma (karma) and its the kamma that keeps the innocence intact where as the cultural environment to be the best at everything and anything advertises it's way into the soul to keep it competing with others and to keep the ego thriving. Innocence is in the eye of the beholder...sort of speak.  

Answer 2

The moment you believe a child is innocent, that's when they get you! They are devilish but cute.

Answer 3

I think it has something to do with feeling responsible for oneself. Is it not true that those children lose their innocence early who are not privileged to have affectionate parents to take care of them?

Answer 4

Because they become accountable for their actions. A child walks out of a grocery store with bubble gum without paying because he doesn't necessarily understand the concepts adults deal with. The manager stops the kid and laughingly corrects him. Now, try that scenario with a person who has "come of age" and he goes to court. I remember one time when I was real young I walked out of a store with my mom and as we waited for the traffic to clear walking into the parking lot a car rolled slowly by us on its way out. I hit my knuckles against the back of the truck and said "Ooff" hoping that I would trick them into believing he had hit me. I laughed and laughed but quickly realized, as the man got out of his truck worried he had hit me, that it was not funny. I actually thought it would be funny. No big deal. Now, with a person who has "come of age" we would normally get out and beat em' up and call the kid a "punk". Not with a ten year old. We just speculate that one day he is not going to be a good person (or whatever).  

Answer 5

Because a lot of children have never wanted to stay as they were when they were little. Most of them have always wanted to grow up, to go beyond the fence and experience all those wonderful things they see adults do. Some children are forced to lose their innocence by growing up in unstable homes.

Others simply forget what it's like to be a kid as they slowly transition into being a teenager and then into an adult. Their bodies, way of life, pressures from society, school, work, and parents all impact and encourage this change. To adapt in this world where people tell them it's too harsh and real for children to exist in, they try to find a way to deal with it.

It's up to the individual to decide which parts of themselves they had as a child to keep in adulthood.

Answer 6

They become s*x driven maniacs.

Answer 7

They are learning..mind comes on stage and they fall into ...Forbidden fruit grew on a tree of Knowledge, to be precise.

Answer 8

As children age, and they learn new things, their thoughts become less "feelings" centric and more "logic"centric.  Slowly, the weight of the world is put on their shoulders until they are ready to carry the full weight.

Answer 9

i think it's because adults try to shelter them and hide what humanity really is from them. ( a sign i think we are doing something wrong. ) and then get older and learn what the world is really like, and then they must change, in order to be that way, so that they can become part of the workforce. and basically the workforce is kind of an eat or be eaten place, so in a sense humans are enemies of each other, all fending for as much as they can collect. but as children they can play in the bliss of ignorance and are in more of a situation where they can love and share and help each other, and are even taught to do this, though they don't always, since though they are children they are still human.

Answer 10

because they acquire knowledge and wisdom.