The USA is kind of unusual in having their age of emancipation/consent at 18, and I don't even think it's been that way for all that long (look at all the songs from the 1950s about "sweet sixteen". Why the hell do you think 16 was an age to make a big deal over? It wasn't about the damn driver's license.)
It's 16 in Canada, and most other places as well, I think. You only need your parent's permission to get married or join the regular armed forces; for everything else, you're good to go off on your own if you want.
US culture is infantalizing its people, like, hard. There's no way a 17 year old should be treated or considered the same as a five year old. It's ridiculous. But humans have that problem of going from one extreme to another - Western civ has gone from treating kids like shit/disposable commodities to treating them like sacred things to be sheltered and coddled until a certain age (and then suddenly expected to function as an adult at a certain age, like legal bullshit is magic). Disaster awaits on that path ...
The USA is kind of unusual in having their age of emancipation/consent at 18, and I don't even think it's been that way for all that long (look at all the songs from the 1950s about "sweet sixteen". Why the hell do you think 16 was an age to make a big deal over? It wasn't about the damn driver's license.)
It's 16 in Canada, and most other places as well, I think. You only need your parent's permission to get married or join the regular armed forces; for everything else, you're good to go off on your own if you want.
US culture is infantalizing its people, like, hard. There's no way a 17 year old should be treated or considered the same as a damn 5 year old, but that's what's happening.
The USA is kind of unusual in having their age of emancipation/consent at 18, and I don't even think it's been that way for all that long (look at all the songs from the 1950s about "sweet sixteen". Why the hell do you think 16 was an age to make a big deal over? It wasn't about the damn driver's license.)
It's 16 in Canada, and most other places as well, I think. You only need your parent's permission to get married or join the regular armed forces; for everything else, you're good to go off on your own if you want.
US culture is infantalizing its people, like, hard.
The USA is kind of unusual in having their age of emancipation/consent at 18, and I don't even think it's been that way for all that long (look at all the songs from the 1950s about "sweet sixteen". Why the hell do you think 16 was an age to make a big deal over? It wasn't about the damn driver's license.)
It's 16 in Canada, and most other places as well, I think.
US culture is infantalizing its people, like, hard.