Should teenagers have their rights removed from them until adulthood?
964982
What rights?\nThey don't have any, and if they do something really stupid, the legal system declares them adults.  NO justice!
665634
Well first basic right you get is to move your butt out of the house of parents. While you are there you have NO rights what so ever. You dont even have a right to buy cigarettes till your parents allow you.
737240
I think the citizenship of the child should be left undecided until the child reaches the age of 18 then he or she can decide for themselves, but the place of birth for the child should remain where the child was originally born.
133807
No, because whoever has the children has to establish some kind of stability for them.  I'm not saying you should not have any rights, but think of the kids first.
424872
I know at age 13 they have the right to decide which parent they want to live with.  I'm not sure if they have the right to refuse visitation with the other parent though.
447945
Of course.  If people are old enough to vote and die for this country they should have all the priviledges of adults.
592108
An age difference of 13 yrs might not be a bad thing,but if one of the people is under 13 they should wait until he/she is of legal age to avoid legal problems.
838308
Yes. 16 year olds have a lot to deal with in society: going to school, maybe working, putting up with bull at school, like cliques and phoney people, some stupid ass teachers.\nmany kids do not have 2 parents, or one or two is not acting right and so on. If a 15-16 year old has problems, like little control over their lives, such as abusive parents or bf or gf or other peers, they should have that independence.\ncome on, look around, see the news; kids have a lot of pressure from the nasty/phoney media and from the not so stable fellow citizens they have to deal with. there is a lot of bull and bad stuff in america's society. yeah 16 year old is right to have all rights.\nof course people should encourage 16 year olds to think things thru and educate themselves on matters, like finance, voting, relationships, health and so on. take care everyone.
128767
actaully deoending on the crime you can be charged as an adult at a very young age. but i feel that most 16 year olds aren't mature enough to make adult decisions. i actually think the age should be raised.
534584
Until they're 18 and legally an adult, or until they die, whichever comes first.
688514
If you had to take a test they wouldn't be rights now would they? If they would put education back in the schools a normal person would have some sense by the time they were eighteen.
790491
i think so. if the minor understood what they were doing and knew what the outcome would be then yes they should be tried as adults.  there areway to many young people out killing each other and know they can get away with it, because they will go to juvie and be out when they are 18.  i say lock them up with the adults so they can truly learn a lesson.
604320
Actually, I think it should be 21.  I have a daughter that will turn 18 in December and she doesn't graduate from high school until June 2007. If she decided to quit school next year there would be nothing I could do legally to stop her. As for voting I really don't believe that at 18 any teenager is ready to make a decision who should or should not be in office. I am 50 and I don't know these answers either!!  No teenager at 18 is ready to be on there own and they still need the guidance of a parent to get them prepared for adulthood. At 18 a teenager is just starting to get a glimpse at what being an adult is and I truly feel as though they need a few more years of adult supervision to hopefully guide them in the right direction and ease the transition into adulthood a little easier and less painful.\nNow adays it seems like everyone is so concerned about sending our kids to college when years ago our great grandparents and our grandparents could make an honest living not even finishing high school. My parents learned more in elementary school than I did in High School. Times have changed and it is not for the best. We are raising a bunch of irresponsible, lazy group of teenagers. They have no idea what it's going to be like on their own. I am not saying that all teenagers are this way, but I would have to say the majority of them are. When I was 16 and got my license I paid for my own car, the insurance, the gas and any repairs that had to be done. I worked and went to high school and kept my grades up. Most kids now are given a car and money to pay for anything they may need. What is that teaching them about responsibilty?  As for the school system I feel as though instead of trying to prepare our kids for college they should be getting them ready to be out on their own. Go back to basics, READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC. College should not be a necessity to get a job to make a decent living.  As for going into the military at 18, I think it is wonderful. They can learn so much and the military will teach them to become responsible young men and women and to be proud of themselves. What other job out there really will do that for them?
673077
i think each state should be mandated to try teenages as an adult, with no parole, no bail and a daily schedule made up for them in the institute that are assigned to. make it more military than just a sentence until they get out. they do not what is requested of them like the military they are punished again and again until they learn. it only takes 1 kid to kill someone and devastate a family.
1162482
they have the same rights as adults do
836380
No. If  they're not old enough to vote for who runs this circus for the next 4 years they shouldn't be allowed to make a decision about something as important as the rest of their lives.  For Christ's sake, at 16 they've only been speaking in complete sentences for about 8 years, (if they even can) and they are just beginning to learn why they have body hair. They are so overrun by hormones that they are more concerned about what to wear to the mall than attending college and making a life for themselves.
45954
It would mostly depend on if one's parents pusued the matter.  However, there are certain shelters which cater to teens who for one reason or another, are no longer living at home.  The age of consent is usually a guideline used by most states for seeing an individual as competent enough to make their own decisions.  The reality of the situation is that most landlords in Maine will not rent to anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent and some form of financial agreement.