Child Services: Going too far?

[kandrathe]

Whatever age you choose, I think the real questions are more toward how do you prepare them for the responsibility, and what should you do about the violations? The problem also is that the transformation from "adolescent" to "adult" is a continuum and not a boundary you cross over. I like 19, just because most 19 year olds have graduated from compulsory schooling, and so you don't get the mixed "juvenile" and "adult" groups mixed together in schools. But, then you have some 18 year olds who are in college, where they are technically not adults, but are living in an "adult" oriented world.

Maybe it should be, 19 or 18 if you have already graduated from compulsory school. Which has the bonus of motivating 100% compulsory school graduation rates. :D