How would you feel about teenagers being allowed to emancipate themselves at will? (employment, drugs)

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by phma

With todays parenting, yeah.

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[redguitar77111]

Originally Posted by mikebnllnb

I'm also for allowing dogs to drive cars.

Cars crash into people. Living on your own signing contracts won't crash into anyone.

Originally Posted by No_Recess

I don't like getting my relationship advice from the government.

The government forcing people to be dependent on their parents against their will sure seems like "relationship advice" to me.

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

For life, or just until they turn 18?

For life.

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by redguitar77111

The government forcing people to be dependent on their parents against their will sure seems like "relationship advice" to me.

Oh I agree.

Don't pair parents and kids together in the first place. No need to be emancipated later on.

I don't want the government telling me who to ask out on a date and then be the arbitrator of when I end the relationship as well.

Stay out...all the way out.

[mikebnllnb]

Originally Posted by redguitar77111

Cars crash into people. Living on your own signing contracts won't crash into anyone.

Most teenagers have about as much ability to live on their own as dogs have the ability to drive cars.

[Sundaydrive00]

Originally Posted by redguitar77111

For life.

And how exactly would that work? Tax dollars go into those programs, would they get a tax break for being ineligible? What about social security, would they not pay into that if you would want to keep a 13 year old from being eligible to collect social security 50 years later?

Kids aren't getting emancipated because they have caring, attentive parents. Its because there is a problem. I don't see hoe further penalizing these kids for having crappy parents (that they had no choice in), is somehow supposed to be a good thing.

Is there something wrong with the way the current system works? Why do you feel it needs to be changed?

[Listener2307]

How would you feel about teenagers being allowed to emancipate themselves at will?

Fine. As long as we parents get to make abortion legal and retroactive until the age of 13.

[mash123]

I guess we will need to make 12 as the new age of consent so the new emancipated teens will be able to make some money.

[Wayland Woman]

O knew a sixteen year old who went to court to emancipated himself and it was granted. His father was dead and his mom was in a mental hospital. He was a mature young man who got Social Security from his dad as a minor. It worked out well and kept him out of the foster care system. He finished school on his own and got job by the time the SS ended a 18.

[redguitar77111]

If teenagers could emancipate themselves, a teenager who's parents say, "my house, my rules" could respond, "In that case, I'm leaving your house."

[Catgirl64]

Why have you presented this as a one-size-fits-all question? It seems much more complicated than that. I'm pretty sure there is some kind of agenda behind this, although I have yet to figure out exactly what it might be.

No, a kid should not be emancipated because of a grounding or restricted cell phone use. If they are being abused or exploited in some way, that's another story.

What is your point, OP?