Talk:Minor (law)

Australia

It may seem weird to have just Australia listed for specific info, but I'm going to be adding countries as I find information, so please don't delete. DanB DanD 00:26, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The UK entry certainly needs more info - the age of consent is 16, for instance. Let alone driving licenses, smoking, buying fireworks, and so on. User:The Yeti 13:30, 22 November 2006

I was just looking through this page and a sentence jumped out at me as a bit dodgy: "The rights and status of minors in many western countries has been compared to the state of women and racial minorities before these groups achieved equal rights." There's no source, and it sounds to me like it's simply opinion. Disgruntled teenager? If there's no objections I'll change it in a while. I'm new to editing wikipedia, so I'm hesitant to jump right in. 60.228.53.86 23:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Property rights

Well, what about those? Can minors own property? Seems like parents (and in some cases even teachers) can just take property from minors as they like. User:75.73.48.43 01:58, 31 January 2007

That would be a good issue to introduce into the article. Generally, I would think teacher's ability to do this is an assumed transference of power from parents who place their children into the teacher's care. That said, I have never heard of a teacher actually snatching something away from a children, generally they ask for it to be handed over voluntarily. If they do not comply, I would think rather than taking it a teacher would contact the principal to deal with the situation, who can contact parents. In the end, for fear of consequence (expulsion) there is generally compliance with such requests so long as the security of the property is verified and it is returned at the end of the school day. Tyciol (talk) 00:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

US inconsistancy

The part on the US seems internally inconsistent. The top says that the age of consent is 18 or 21, while it says uniformly 18 below. The "age of majority" on that page is all over the board. Someone who has information on this should take a look. SandwichSandwich 14:44, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds pretty strange, I've only ever seen 21 for the ages for drinking alchohol in the US. Tyciol (talk) 00:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statutory Rape

Would you really say that this is a restriction imposed on minors? Seems more like a restriction posed on those who would like to have sex with them... -Daniel C. Boyer 16:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a restriction placed upon both parties, it's not really an if/else situation. Primarily the restriction is on minors since they can't have sex period, whereas adults still have potential sexual partners amongst other adults, so it is only a partial restriction of availabilities. To those who have preferences correlating with minors it seems like a larger restriction to them though. Tyciol (talk) 00:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]