It is said that a man can do some damages while in his forties but he can really fug up and destroy lives while in his fifties searching for the illusion of happiness.
Applies to women too, especially around menopause.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
