Minors: All states have an “age of majority” , usually 18. A minor is not treated as an adult and must be under the care of a parent or guardian unless emancipated.
Minors do not have the same rights as adults in the following:
- Legal matters
- Property
- Medical privacy
- Criminal punishment
- Getting tattoos
- Smoking tobacco
- Voting
- Joining the military
- Travel or drive …….
They do not have the same mental ability and need additional protection and this why they must also be protected from predatory teachers and administrators and any others who seek to have a person with a lesser mental capacity (such as minor) make a decision that will greatly affect the rest of their lives.
To push a life altering major decision on a minor is to simply ignore the facts of minor vs adult.
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