Wow, it looks like a lot of people have a hard time consulting the laws of your state. If you are 18 years old and live in the United States, no matter what, you can legally leave your parents` home. The only state, if not emancipated, where you can move at 17 is Texas. In truth, excessive alcohol consumption potentially has much more harmful effects on brain development than adults, and perhaps the shift from 18 to 21 to the legal drinking age reflects the number of road deaths from 20% to 20%, which may be the above research on physical brain development well beyond the age of 18, especially in terms of decision-making. However, among other developed countries, only South Korea, Japan, and Iceland also have a minimum drinking age of more than 18, and their older teens seem to handle it well. It should be 18-20 because 18 is the age at which you become a legal adult. I am 12 years old and I am doing research in civic education. I have a quick question. I am 20 years old and I have three little brothers. My parents recently separated. How old do I have to be to be legally responsible for it? I would like to know exactly what the adult age is in New York State.
My daughter lives there in my house with her boyfriend and her new baby. Both signed a lease for the apartment in August 2011. I haven`t gotten anything since they signed the lease. They have actually been living in the apartment without a lease since April. She just turned 21 and he`s 22 or 23, and now she`s telling me I have to take care of her expenses for the whole of Grade 21, which I think is garbage. The legal age I live in is 21 for most things. You can`t get married, sign legal contracts, or vote until you`re 21. A minor is a person under the age of 21 and their parents must give their parental consent so that they can do things legally. anon21725: Yes, it is possible. Legally, your parents cannot make you stay; If they do, they may find themselves in legal difficulty. Once you`re 18, you don`t legally have to listen to your parents. After all, this is the only country where you are not an adult at the age of 16.
I went to my local police station and asked and all he told me was to google it. All I want to know is if I can move legally because I pay for my own business, if I have two jobs, my own car, and a safe place to stay without being flagged as an exception in the state of Texas. On the other hand, proponents of these types of laws and the relatively low age of consent cite the recognition that adolescents often engage in consensual intimate activities with other adolescents, whether or not they are legal in their respective regions. It is therefore absurd to send them to prison under some of the harshest penalties that most consensual sexual regimes have to offer, especially since potential coercion by much older people, which originally led to an increase in the age of consent, is relatively rare and, in many cases, would already be illegal under separate laws. I just don`t understand why 21 should be the legal drinking age. If we are considered adults at the age of 18, we should be able to drink. Especially when 18 is the year we need to start making responsible decisions. Let us then make the responsible decision to drink. If I can marry at the age of 18 and enlist in the military, I believe I should be allowed to have a glass of wine or a drink with my family and friends. So if 18 is the age of adulthood, why is 21 the legal minimum age to drink alcohol? I tried to persuade my parents to let me live with him and his family.
But they just won`t. Is there a way out legally? I`m 16 and I live in Canada, I`m legal to have sex here, but my boyfriend is 28. If I am allowed to have sex, will he be charged? Even if a newly legal adult is still in high school, a parent is often not subject to legal pressure to continue providing housing or care. Some exceptions to this rule have been proven, especially in divorce cases where one of the spouses is still applying for child support or help paying for university. Some parents feel that the ongoing financial support really confirms the fact that the child is not yet quite an adult, regardless of age. I will be 18 in August. I am in a host family. I can leave the host family when I`m 18, right? The people I work with have even told me that I can leave when I am old enough to express myself. For my part, I don`t think that`s true because I`m a legal adult. They no longer need to welcome me and take care of me. I think I`m very mature for my age.
I know that moving won`t be easy and it won`t be everything I dreamed of. I always want to have the freedom to do what I want and need. No, I don`t mean celebrating and spending time with friends. I want the freedom to go to the library and get school supplies when I need them. I am extremely young. I am a minor and my boyfriend is 18 years old. I want to leave my house because my mother is violent. I want to live with him. But it`s not “legal.” Would it be wrong if I ran away? For example, in Washington state, it is legal for a person as young as 11 to have consensual sex as long as the person they are having sex with is at least 11 years old and no more than two years older than them. If it is even a day outside these two years, it is illegal and the elderly person faces exceptionally severe penalties, including life imprisonment in some cases. On the sliding scale, minors between the ages of 12 and 13 are legally allowed to have consensual sex with a person under three years older than them and young people between the ages of 14 and 15 with a person no older than them.
I am not from the United States. I come from a country where the minimum legal age is 18. I can drink, get a car driver`s license or buy a house or vote or something like adults. In the United States, the age of consent varies from state to state, so a legal adult in the United States is difficult, technically it takes 18 but 21 years to drink, and many offenders can be tried as adults even before reaching the age of 18. Someone told me that if you went through the system when you were a child, the legal age goes from 18 to 21. it seemed like a burden to me, but I wondered. It`s true? I have a 21 year old son who has been in foster care since the age of 2. I didn`t go through the health care system in Pennsylvania.
I put it on my own. Although the host family had a lawyer. Right now, my son is in a hospital with a serious brain injury due to a driver`s leaked accident. My question is who has the right to make decisions about my son. Me or his foster parents? I was told that now that he is 21 years old, I am the only one who can make decisions about life and death. It`s true? My friend`s mother gave him the choice of moving here with my family or staying here. He told her he wanted to come here and she prevented him even though she had given him the choice. Since he will be 18 in a few months, is it legal for him to move as soon as he turns around so he can get away from his mother? have a discussion – when did the legal status of “adult” in the United States increase from 21 to 18? An adult is held legally responsible for his or her own actions, such as signing a contract or committing a crime. Before reaching this age, a person is considered a minor child. The age of 18 is identified in the Jewish Talmud as the age of adulthood, as opposed to good judgment for making financial decisions as a judge. [7] Here, the Talmud says that every court given to Josiah, the sixteenth king of Judah (c. 640-609), who was delivered from the age of eight when he was crowned at the age of eighteen, was overthrown and he returned the money to the parties he considered responsible because he feared that in his youth, he did not judge the cases correctly.
