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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] "The 14th Amendment was passed what, almost 150 years ago? Amazingly, the family unit has survived all this time, even with some interpreting the amendment to mean adults have no legal power over their own children. What is the motivation or need for limiting children's rights on the federal level, then?" Oh yes. Because society has also functioned for all that time, that means we never need to pass any new laws ever! Yay! The argument that children should have less rights than adults is a non-issue. Children already have less rights than adults. And unless you want 10 year olds voting, then they will continue to have less rights. In a society which divides it's people up into "adults" and "children", there will always be an age where a child takes responsibility for him or herself, and therefore gets more rights. And there's also a clear example of the American tendancy to go way overboard here (such as with drink and drugs). Saying a parent can smack a child on the bottom is no-where near the same as saying that a parent can beat their child with a large hammer every single night. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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