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Runaway laws for youth should be abolished

"[The] rules don't protect youth best interests." is outlandish and the same as saying a bicycle helmet isn't in the best interest of your head. I am curious how living a life of drugs, poverty and prostitution is considered an adolescences "best interests." Bicycle helmets are not the same things as runaway laws. That would be like comparing helmets laws to alcohol prohibition. We can argue alcohol prohibition prevents problems associated with alcohol just like bike helmets prevent head injuries while on the bike, but those are two different things and can't be compared. I never stated that living a life of drugs, poverty and prostitution is in the best interests of adolescents. In fact, in round 2, my rebuttal (#2) states that child labor laws and other oppressive laws cause those problems. 2. Even with parental consent kids who are under the legal adult working age and don't run away from home aren't finding 6 figure salaries. They are working in restaurants, super markets, delivering papers. I hope that is not what you consider a "good job" as this job does not provide for the future in all likelihood will only support a paycheque to paycheque lifestyle. Even with parental consent, youth are only allowed to work certain hours and (in my state NY,) have to get a medical exam before obtaining an employment certificates (they have to be "in good health" to work. Adults don't have to do this, why We can argue alcohol prohibition prevents problems associated with alcohol just like bike helmets prevent head injuries while on the bike, but those are two different things and can't be compared. I never stated that living a life of drugs, poverty and prostitution is in the best interests of adolescents. In fact, in round 2, my rebuttal (#2) states that child labor laws and other oppressive laws cause those problems. 2. Even with parental consent kids who are under the legal adult working age and don't run away from home aren't finding 6 figure salaries. They are working in restaurants, super markets, delivering papers. I hope that is not what you consider a "good job" as this job does not provide for the future in all likelihood will only support a paycheque to paycheque lifestyle. Even with parental consent, youth are only allowed to work certain hours and (in my state NY,) have to get a medical exam before obtaining an employment certificates (they have to be "in good health" to work. Adults don't have to do this, why should juveniles? Limits on working hours prevent youth from earning decent money. I don't consider restaurants and supermarkets a "good job" but if we allowed youth to work the good jobs they can be earning a good income. 3. Furthermore, the reasons theses kids have a difficulty with both finding a job as well as a job with a good pay cheque is because simply they are uneducated. Seriously, no one is going to want to hire a high school drop out who didn't complete basic math. In fact the importance of education is only being held in higher and higher regard. Many schools won't even allow you to apply for a trade without a high school diploma. How do you define "basic math"? Just basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or advanced high school algebra? While many jobs require a high school diploma because of the belief that those with a high school diploma are more skilled. But many things we learn in high school we forget. Some things we learn don't really apply in the job market, so education can be tailored more to our job interests. 4. Lets just thow out the whole system and take drugs and live like hippies and sell coke. I never said that's what I wanted. 5. Structure, designed through knowledge, is the key to our development. Without structure we would still be savage hunter gathers living in the mud and dying in our early thirties or less. True, but can we accomplish the same ends with a different structure? 6. Many adolescents may not quite fully understand the implications of there actions. That is not true. The "youthful brain with an inability to link actions to consequences" has not been proven. While there was a study that said that the rain is not fully developed till 25, and I will link the study, but 1st a quote from the link in the bottom paragraph, 1st page. “The researchers speculated in their article that this may be due to a plethora of life experiences in young adulthood such as pursing post-secondary education, starting a career, independence and developing new social and family relationships.” http://www.news-medical.net... Elliot Valentin, a retired neuroscientist wrote a book called Blaming the brain, published in 1998. He wrote, “A persons mental state and experience can modify the brain just as surely as the other way around. When there is a correlation between these two events, we should not assume that we always know which way causation flows…. It has been shown in numerous experiments, for example. That exposure to stressful situations can produce long lasting brain changes.” There was never proof that teens are more likely to take risks as a result of their age.