I found it depends on the child, not the sex of child. I always said the Lord made teenagers so mothers would be more than willing to let them go. Lets face it if they were still the same cute cuddley little tikes they once were, we would want to keep them at home forever. My girls turned in to "adults" in there 20s and we are now best friends, my oldest son actully grew up at age 18, my middle son is 42 and still working on the growing up thing. My youngest son is 34 and is finally grown up, but he will always be "Mommy's baby" and he hates it. Good luck, they do grow out of it.