Lower the age of majority to 16?

[dead0man]

no way

[dead0man]

     Considering the recent social and cultural trends towards delaying the onset of adulthood, a proposal to reduce the age of majority is quite bizarre.

Treating people like children will not help the process. Give them occupations, good Christian upbringings, and basic rights, such as voting.

     Certainly, but giving legal rights to people who lack the maturity to make use of them responsibly seems backwards. This project needs to begin in society, with parents giving their children better upbringings with more autonomy.

You estimate the degree to which people assume that the law is correct. Parents often deny their children autonomy because the law says that they're children. Plenty of parents are fine with their kids drinking at a younger age on a trip to Europe.

it is legal in most states for parents to let under age children drink alcohol on private property.  cite

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In 8 states it's legal to do it in bars:Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Most people/parents are totally ignorant of this though....I don't know why.