Role bias

Adultification essentially means the assigned-adopted process of the role of an adult to whatever extent; voluntarily, and/or involuntarily, either partially or fully, through a role assignment-adoption process. Adultification is a normal process when it is within context appropriate bounds, such as age and ability, and maladaptive when it exceeds them. A common type of adultification is the assigned-adopted process of parental or parent-like roles, within families and society in general, which becomes maladaptive when the role weight exceeds the normal capacity of the assigned. (G. Eiríksson, 2021).Reykjavík, self-published.Childhood adultification involves contextual, social, and developmental processes in which youth are prematurely, and often inappropriately, exposed to adult knowledge and assume extensive adult roles and responsibilities within their family networks. Exemplar cases from the ethnographies are integrated in the discussion to illustrate components of the model. Four successive levels of adultification are described: precocious knowledge, mentored-adultification, peerification/spousification, and parentification.Linda Burton.Adultification bias is a form of racial prejudice where children of minority groups, such as African Americans, are treated as being more mature than they actually are by a reasonable social standard of development.