Too much, too young?

I am intrigued as to why girls may want to be older and women younger, is there a peer pressure put on women in today’s society to be youthful? Do young girls think that being older is going to be more fulfilling and exciting? Is there an ideal age and if so what is it?

I have started researching this with a Video Art piece I have produced previously for a BBC big screen commission. ‘What age would you like to be?’, where I asked various girls and women what age they would like to be, I found that the majority of young girls wanted to be older and older women wanted to be younger.