In the Information Age, the norm is flexible work, breaking the barriers that once required everyone to work at the same time, in the same place.

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In the historic centers of Kyoto and Kamakura, where 13th-century monuments are the norm, age becomes relative.

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However, some children have extremely difficult and challenging behaviours that are outside the norm for their age.

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In his view this was the Golden Age of cowboy boots before mechanization and mass production became the norm.

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"They actually figured out a good intervention there, which was to break apart this central group of girls that were essentially promoting the spread of this norm of a heightened sexuality at a very young age, " Fowler said.

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Raising the age of consent to 18 has placed India among the more orthodox countries in a world where the norm and the global average is around 16 years.

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