The maturity difference between the adults and the children can also be highlighted by taking a look at certain TV shows. Compare the cast of “Friends” to the cast of “That 70’s Show”. Each show has 6 main cast members - the 6 from “Friends” were all born from 1963-1969, the 6 from “That 70’s Show” were all born from 1976-1983. In the first season of “Friends” the 6 cast members ranged in age from 25 to 31, and at that time they were all adults. In the last season of “That 70’s Show” the 6 cast members ranged in age from 22 to 30, the second youngest being 26, and at that time they were all still children. There’s something about seeing that all the members of one show matured into adulthood, while all the members of another show didn’t, that really accentuates the scope of the problem. Looking at the cast of “The O.C.” has a similar affect, as every cast member born in 1978 or after is still a child. “Battlestar Galactica” is another example of a show without any exceptions, as every cast member born after 1974 is still a child. The cast of “Lost” is a good self contained celebrity comparison. In the first two season there have been 15 leading cast members who were born from 1963-1983. The 7 born before 1973 are all adults, the 6 born after 1973 are all still children, and of the 2 born in 1973 there’s one adult and one child. Examples of TV shows that are great video evidence of the syndrome’s existence seem limitless. Examples of TV shows that refute the syndrome’s existence are impossible to find.

It should also be pointed out that “Battlestar Galactica” and “Lost” each only contributed one person to the celebrity comparison. This is a testament to the number of actors and actresses who could have been added to the list. Primarily with the addition of more TV actors and actresses, there easily could have been more than 1000 people in the celebrity comparison, with the syndrome’s affected to unaffected ratios looking the same.

Another way of drawing attention to the lack of physical maturity in the celebrity comparison’s young people is by looking at the affect of the syndrome from a different perspective. Instead of analysing whether or not a person is physically mature enough to qualify as an adult, analyse whether or not they’re physically mature enough to qualify as an alpha male or an alpha female. For various reasons, some of which have already been discussed, certain people may have trouble seeing the problem in adult/child terms. Certain people may not feel confident deciding exactly what constitutes adulthood, but everyone knows exactly what constitutes an alpha male. Everyone knows that Russell Crowe is an alpha male, and that Matthew Broderick isn’t. It’s very simple.

There are 26 actors in the celebrity comparison who were born after 1974, and were also at least 25 years old in their most recent video evidence, and not one can even remotely be considered an alpha male. Expand the search beyond the celebrity comparison, include every actor born after 1974 who played even a bit role in any movie or TV show, and it’s still unlikely that you’ll find even a single alpha male. The actors from the celebrity comparison born post-1974 closest to being alpha males are Colin Farrell, Brandon Routh, Heath Ledger, Josh Hartnett and Johnny Knoxville, and only one of these five even qualifies as a man. Contrast this with the group of actors from the celebrity comparison who were born in 1974 or earlier. Alpha males are everywhere - Mel Gibson, Christopher Reeve, Tom Sizemore, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, etc. Look outside the celebrity comparison at the actors who didn’t have well know video evidence from before they were 30 and find a lot more alphas. Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Samuel L Jackson, to name just a few. It’s also interesting to note that the greatest examples of an alpha male were all born before 1965. Matthew McConaughey, born in 1969, and Ben Affleck, born in 1972, do qualify as alpha males, but next to men like Russell Crowe and Harrison Ford they don’t match up.

The young male musicians are a little different from the young actors, but not much. Only 3 of the 42 born after 1974, and none of the 18 born after 1978, can be considered alpha males. A very different situation from the group of male musicians born in or before 1974, which contains a huge number of alpha males.

Females aren’t thought of in alpha terms as often as males, but it does happen, and it will happen here. Since the syndrome hits the females at full strength a year or two later than it hits the males, and since females finish physically maturing a little earlier than males, the requirements to be included in the young female group have to be somewhat different than they were for the young males. The young females are those born after 1975, and are also at least 23 years old in their most recent video evidence, and of the 36 actresses fitting these two requirements only one, Brooke Burns, can be considered an alpha female. Among the actresses born before 1976, the alpha female is extremely common. Examples from the actresses in the celebrity comparison include Charlize Theron, Natasha Henstridge, Lucy Lawless, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Hurley and Nicole Kidman. Many of these actresses are confirmed to have achieved alpha status in their early 20’s, some as young as 20.

The five youngest adults in the entire celebrity comparison are all female musicians, and four of these, Pink, Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Amy Lee, can all be considered borderline alpha females. Even still, the alpha to non-alpha ratio for female musicians born after 1975 is very low - just 4 to 14. There are also no alpha female musicians born after 1981. Contrast this with the female musicians born in or before 1975, a group in which about half are at least borderline alphas.

Among the world’s famous actors and actresses, and musicians, young alpha males and females are much more rare today than they were in the past. In fact, there isn’t even one young alpha male or female born after 1981 in the entire celebrity comparison. This is the child for life syndrome, just viewed from a different angle. The syndrome prevents people from physically maturing properly, and no one with even the slightest ability to recognize an alpha male and an alpha female can pretend not to notice.

The celebrity comparison’s children are going to stay that way “for life”. The comparison justifies the syndrome’s title. The syndrome doesn’t just slow down the process of physical maturation, it stops it short of completion.

Regardless of whether or not they’re affected by the syndrome, people don’t continue to physically mature until they’re 50, 60, or 100 years old. The celebrity comparison shows that both the adults and the children finished the process of physical maturation by age 24, at the latest. The number 24 comes from the fact that no one in the comparison, adult or child, has video evidence showing that any physical maturation took place after the age of 24. Past 24 the changes to the face are superficial - after a while the skin starts to take on a slightly different look, wrinkles are added, but the basic facial structure remains the same.

Although the overwhelming majority of the children from the celebrity comparison with maturity completion confirming video evidence are shown to have finished physically maturing long before they were 24 years old. Jennifer Love Hewitt was a child when she filmed “I Know What You Did Last Summer” at just 17 years old, and 10 years later in the TV show “Ghost Whisperer” she looks exactly the same. Not one bit closer to womanhood. “I Know What You Did Last Summer” was also used to confirm the completion of physical maturity for three other child actors - Sarah Michelle Gellar at 19, Freddie Prinze Jr at 20, and Ryan Phillippe at 22. Not one looks even slightly different when seen most recently 8 - 10 years later. Erica Christensen was a child when she filmed “Traffic” at 17, and she looks identical 6 years later in “The Sisters”. Sarah Polley was the exact same child at 26 that she was at 17. There was no change whatsoever in Natalie Portman from 18 to 24. The list goes on and on.

None of the adults were listed with video evidence to confirm that they had finished physically maturing, but those with the two pieces of video evidence made at least three years apart are usually shown to have completed physical maturity when they were much younger than 24, as well. Most of the adults didn’t start making well known video evidence until after their teens, but there is the evidence to confirm that many stopped maturing by 20. Charlize Theron, Natasha Henstridge, Brooke Burns and Robin Wright Penn are all women who looked the same, in any relevant way, at 20 as they did in their most recent sightings, between 8 and 18 years later. Take Robin Wright Penn for example. Look at her 20 year old face in “The Princess Bride”, then compare it to her 38 year old face in “Nine Lives”. There are some extremely minor differences in skin, but the facial structure is the same - it’s the same face. Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland both looked the same at 21 as they do now, 20 years later. Compare Kiefer’s face at 21 in “Young Guns” with his face at 39 in season 5 of “24”. Except for some almost unnoticeable differences in skin, the two faces are identical. At the age of 21 he already had a man’s face - and it’s the very same man’s face that he has now.

Case after case all show the same thing - whatever a person looks like at 24, and usually much earlier, is essentially what they will look like for decades afterward. So if a child isn’t an adult by the time they’re 24, then it’s never going to happen.

The celebrity comparison proves the existence of the child for life syndrome by analysing the physical maturity of the only people known to a large enough percentage of the population - celebrities. Though only two categories of celebrities, actors and actresses and musicians, are included in the comparison. The world of celebrities should actually include 6 categories, the other 4 being - athletes and people involved in the world of sports, models and people involved in the world of fashion, TV personalities (talk show hosts, news anchors, etc), and everybody else (politicians, royalty, famous business people, etc). These other 4 categories had to be left out of the celebrity comparison, and the reasons for this should be explained.