I sometimes wonder about the concept of childhood within the Star Wars universe, with so many planets in the galaxy each culture must have its own views on this, but in the franchise's content many characters were forced to grow up very early.
On Naboo, there's a tradition of teenage queens, with a 14-year-old Padmé ruling an entire planet. On Chandrila, child marriage is cultural, and apparently Mon Mothma was already a senator at 16. Underage Jedi Padawans, like Ahsoka, were sent to fight in the Clone Wars just like adults. Bobba Fett has been working with criminals since he was a child and was even sent to prison at this stage. Not to mention the places in the Outer Rim where slavery runs rampant and children like Anakin witness countless violence.
From this we can conclude that it is not so uncommon for young people to occupy important positions and that they are as legally responsible for their actions as adults (Ahsoka could have received the death penalty for allegedly bombing the temple even as a teenager, which would not be possible in a country like mine, for example). There does not seem to be this distinction of childhood, or at least from adolescence, as a phase separate from adulthood, it is as if they lived like the pre-Modern Western world, where children and teenagers were seen as mini adults.
The characters also react to this and we can see the consequences of this way of life, like Mon and her husband's marriage, Padmé advising Anakin not to try to grow up too fast and saying that she wasn't sure if she was ready to be a queen at the time, Ahsoka reflecting that all she's been since she was a padawan is a soldier, Bobba Fett never changing his way of life and becoming a bounty hunter like his father. They all got a little screwed up by this, it's interesting to think about these aspects of their world.
