how do your rights and responsibilites change as you grow older?
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Below 18, your rights are basically to have your parents treat you within certain limits, such as defined in "child abuse" and "child neglect" laws.  Your responsibilities are to obey your parents to the extent short of committing a crime.\n\nAfter 18, your rights are to do what you will within the criminal justice code and the laws governing civil responsibilities (tort, administrative law, and the like).  Your responsibilities are to pay your bills, avoid breaking laws, and care for any offspring or spouse you may have.\n\nAfter 65 (or so; there's a fuzzy area here), your rights are to collect social security, get discounts on lots of things, and be treated with a certain respect.  Your responsibilities do not, in substance, change from what they were when you were younger, except that nominally, you do not need to get a job.\n\nNow, that's a rough overview of the legal situation in the US.  More generally, I believe it is your responsibility to learn from the wisdom of your elders, and for elders to share their wisdom with the young.
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There will be a big difference in age any where from 70-100. It deffinately has a lot to do with height, family history, lifestyle, etc.
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Go to youthrights.org, they have all sorts of stuff on this sort of thing.  It's ridiculous the way kids are treated in school, but it can't go on forever--pretty soon, they'll get so outrageous that people will take notice.\n\nAnd, alexa2829, kids DO have rights.  How would you like it if you were told that you have no rights, not even to the basic necessities of life, just because of your age?  If a parent withholds the rights to eat, drink, sleep, or go to the bathroom, they could be charged with child abuse, but from teachers it's expected.  You make me sick.
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mid 20's ..... you're old enough to do everything--<legally>-- but not to old that you don't feel like doing nothing else
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None.  As a Minor, you have the right to listen to you parents, go to school, study and do what other kids are doing:  learning the skills and info needed to become contributing members of society.  Regardless of country of origin, unless your parents had their rights stricken, they are presumed to be competent and raising you properly. \n\nYou should thank you parents for caring enough to be interested in your life.  I've been on my own since 17 years old, (I am now 28) and I wish I could have had my mom that interested in my life.  Now, with my parents passing, I am left to remember those times.\n\nLegally, as long as you are an unemancipated minor, you get to either follow their rules, or get punished.  Should you rebel by skipping school and such, you will be forced to attend, if noy locked away, forcibly schooled and otherwise regulated until you reach adulthood.\n\nTo become emancipated, at least generally in the US, you need to prove that you are both able to take care of yourself financially, scholastically and generally.  Quite hard, considering most kids get paid crap, don't like to save, and can not be trusted to go to school for themselves.\n\nAgain, give your folks a big hug and a kiss and thank them for taking a proactive stand in your life.
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As we get older our wants. needs, and desires change with us. Our bodies and minds need different things at 50 than they did at 18. You look for different qualities in the people you associate with. \nAs you age you look more at what a person has to offer intellectually, mentally, emotionally. Your interests, values, and morals have changed with age and you tend to look for a mate with similar interests, desires, ect.
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Florida seems to be largely older folks, and older folks usually become more conservative as they age.  They become more conservative politically because they become more conservative in other ways.  They also become more conservative politically because as they age, they become more fearful of their physical and economic safety, and this fear makes them extremely insecure about the future, thus the conservative trend. "Don't change anything while I nap!"
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We grew older, some died thats life. See what you have to look forward too?
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What is old to you is not to them. Some of it is priceless.\nWhen you get older you begin to value certain things more than when your young.
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1.  A young person wise beyond their years.\n2.  What is putting you in danger now, in reality, is far worse than anything you can imagine.\n3.  Old people, when they become helpless and senile, have a "second childhood" in which they must be cared for like children.\n4.  If you know what to do and are well convinced of it, your will act with certainty.\n5.  People's ambition gets in the way of them behaving in a moral, virtuous manner.
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When you get older, you'll be surprised how much you missed out all because you cared to much of what others thought.  Just do what you, and only you, think is right.
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Kids theoretcially have the same rights, but as minors can still be told to what to do by adults so it might not always seem like they have equal rights.
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The interests of people above 60 are really not much different than those younger - travel, friends, music, movies, sex, food, etc.  The biggest difference is that they usually have the experience, wisdom, time, and money to enjoy these interests without the worries and anxiety of youth.  Not always, but usually.
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this now depends on when you where born a new law changed the dates for example a person born in the 70's would work until they are 67 social security can be made available any any age to a injured worker who will be disabled for a least one year it is all so available to dependents of deceased workers under some circumstances
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vixxenkitty got it right. Knowing you are now responsible for caring for someone for the next 18 years or so can certainly make you grow up fast.
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you need to set other people to have more rights
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You will lose time with your family.\nYou will have less time to pursue your hobbies.\nYou may have less time to exercise -- you might get fat.\nYou won't get enough sleep.\nYou may have conflicts between your job and school, for example, you may not be as flexible to travel.\n\nYou may find new skills, improve your career, improve your self image, and improve your satisfaction with your life.\nYou may meet new friends.\nYou may find a new job.\nYou may network with other people in your profession.\nStudies show that maintaining an active mental lifestyle may defer or prevent symptoms of old age including Alzheimer's.\n\nYou may meet a gorgeous, twenty-two year old, nymphomaniac who fawns all over you, divorce your spouse, and buy a two-seat sports car.  Nah! That would never happen.  :)