At 08:04 01-10-2002 +0200, Sonja van Baardwijk wrote: >Actually it is not just one age that turns you from totally sheltered into out >on your own from one day to the other, it is more a multistep thing. F.i. >at 12 >you no longer are considered to be a child but become a youth, already legally >you go from not prosecutable to prosecutable, albeit under a different set of >laws from adults. At 16 certain rights (legal as well as personal) are granted >to you, like ownership, citizenship or driving licence (in The Netherlands >only >for scooters, not cars but in the US a car is possible). At 18 you become >of age >and are granted most of the adult rights like electoral, legal handling and >such, at 21 you are totally free of any parental interfearence in everything >personal as well as legal.
That is not entirely correct. You get all the rights (and responsibilities) at 18. Legally, you are completely on your own then; you can do anything a person can legally do without requiring parental consent. Your parents cannot interfere in your legal affairs once you turn 18. As for parents interfering with your personal life, well, there is no legal limit for that. It could very well last for as long as they are alive... :-) Jeroen "Big Kid" van Baardwijk __________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
