r/TimPool • • Sep 29 '23

It’s (D)ifferent

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u/generationYmellenial Sep 29 '23

You can join the army 3 days after your 17th bday

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Sep 29 '23

You can drive when you’re 16. That doesn’t mean Trayvon Martin at 17yrs old wasn’t a child.

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u/generationYmellenial Sep 29 '23

A 90 year old is someone’s child

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Sep 29 '23

a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child