Is it illegal for an adult to date a senior high school student?
Not if the senior is also an adult. The law makes very little distinction among adults by age except for tobacco and alcohol purchases. It makes no differentiation for consensual adult behavior, including dating. Anyone eighteen or older is consideed an adult. Their occupation makes no difference. If a person is an adult he may date another adult. The difference in age makes no legal difference. Eighteen and eighteen, 18 and 28, 18 and 48, 18 and 88 — no differnce. If there were to be any question, as soon as the younger one showed an i.d. showing his age as beng 18 or above, the inquiry would be over.It is entirely possible for a senior in an American high school to be a legal adult.Even if the senior were under eighteen, there would be nothing wrong to be dating a college freshman for example. Dating is entirely legal. Sexual relations between minors and adults are controlled by law, but not mere dating. When, as a seventeen year old senior I took another senior to a school dance, I never considered and no one ever inquired if she had already had her eighteenth birthday. Do parents consider such things today?
Why is the legal drinking age in the United States so high compared to the majority of other countries?
It is a good question: alcohol is a powerful drug and just as dangerous in terms of addiction as many soft drugs that are completely illegal.Yet it is part of “our” historic culture - in Early medieval England, making “Small beer” was the only means of purifying the water supply, for children as well as adults. One of the few pleasures of life for Irish and Scottish subsistence farmers was distilling and consuming alcohol. Other European countries had developed approaches to alcohol - such as France and Italy with wine, where children were introduced to alcohol socially by “watering down” (Sophistication)Despite acquiring such imported cultures, by immigration the founding fathers of he USA were Puritan and Protestant and many took literally the Biblical warnings against drunkenness and therefore developed a legalistic and prohibitive approach to alcohol that culminated in Prohibition in the 1920s. It was a massive failure and fuelled organised crime, but in overturning it, a compromise was reached by setting a high required level of abstinence for adolescents.European countries introduced minimum legal ages for public consumption and purchase of alcohol in the early 20th century from a background of centuries of having no such minima, and these legal permissions have settled by consensus at age 18: but still in England and France the law allows younger people (16+) to have a glass of wine or beer with a meal in adult company and to have alcohol at home from age 5.The USA for its own reasons tried prohibition and in abandoning it was able to set a higher age.
How can the military forces - which represent the United States - legally get away with age discrimination?
Because no-one has taken them to court, in all probability. The retirement age in the Canadian Forces used to be 40, with some being invited to stay for longer, but, only some. As I reached the age of 40, that was being challenged in court, and the military lost. I had been given 3 years extra to hold me while the court battle was being fought, and they then released me on my 43rd birthday, as "end of contract." They also fought the 55 Compulsory Retirement Age (CRA), but, the military won this one, although some trades can stay until 60. Most must retire at 55 though. The "Intermediate Engagement" used to be to age 40, or 20 years in whichever was later. Nowadays, it is 20 years in period, up to age 55. So, challenge the military in court. Good luck!
Is the legal drinking age in America too high?
The US has the highest drinking age of any country and more problems with alcohol consumption than most. Turning young people into criminals is really a destructive way to go. In other countries, young people are taught responsibility in drinking, that's what's soely laking in the states. An EXCELLENT source of information on the drinking age dispute can be found here: http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/YouthIs...
What's the legal age in usa? here it is 18?
If you mean age of consent, it is 18 throughout the United States, though it varies in different states, technically. However, if one performs sexual acts with someone over the state age of consent and under the federal age of consent, they can still be charged with various misdemeanors. Also, if they are more than four years older than the person, they can be charged with a felony. If by legal age, you meant voting age, then it is 18. If you meant age at which you can drink, its 21. If you meant driving age, its usually 16.
What are the different ages of a legal adult of countries around the world?
Well, adulthood is defined as the age at which you are emancipated from your parents.As defined, adulthood is different from:voting ageconsent agemarriage agegambling agedrinking agedriving agepopular election ageIn short, if you are a rock star, when you can use your money freely, you are an adult.Depending on the country, you can reach adulthood in three different ways:Depending only on age (majority of countries)Depending on your sex (in Pakistan only women are adults at 16)Depending on your marriage status or other considerationsBrazil is one exception here: you can be an adult at 16 if you marry, work in civil service, graduate from college or you are economically independentCroatia gives you adulthood at any age if you marry or become a parent and a judge and Social Services agreePoland allows you to become an adult when you marry, but women cannot marry before 16In Russia you are an adult if you marry, work “on a labour agreement” or are “engaged in business activities”The limits are this:In Saudi Arabia you are an adult once you reach puberty, up to 15 years, but women depend on male guardians for life to work, marry or travel, so they are never adults in a full sense. In Irak, depending if your case go to Judiciary Court or Shari’ah law court, you can follow the same rule when under Shari’ah.The countries with younger absolute age to reach adulthood, at 15, are:IndonesiaIranMyanmarYemenThe countries where you reach adulthood at 16 are:CambodiaCubaKyrgyzstanPalestinePakistan (only females)Scotland (not a country)VietnamYou are an adult at 17 in:North KoreaTajikistanTimor-LesteYou are an adult at 19 in:AlgeriaThe following provinces of Canada:Nova ScotiaNew BrunswickBritish ColumbiaNewfoundland and LabradorNorthwest TerritoriesYukonNunavutYou are an adult at 20 in:JapanNew ZealandParaguayTaiwanThailandYou are an adult at 21 in:BahrainCameroonCôte d’IvoireGabonGrenadaHondurasLesothoMadagascarNamibiaSingaporeSwazilandUnited Arab EmiratesUnited StatesMississipiPuerto RicoZambiaIn the rest of the world you are an adult at 18.
Why does the US have a higher drinking age than the rest of the world?
As has been said earlier (Justin Mitchell breaks it down very well) it technically doesn’t.The constitution clearly states that powers not explicitly defined within are to be left to the states or the people. Since the neither the 19th (prohibition) nor the 21st (repealing of prohibition) amendment contain any language about the drinking age (obviously the 19th amendment barred all drinking, but it was repealed entirely), the power was left to the states.In 1984, amidst “concern over drunk driving”, a dirty trick was played to rob the states of their freedom: The Drinking Age Act was passed. It says, in a nutshell, that unless a state changes its drinking age to 21, it will lose all federal highway funding. Since all states are dependent on this aid to some extent, every state changed their drinking age.So, yeah. Technically it is state law that limits drinking until 21, and any state can technically lower their drinking age any time. They’ll just have to pay a huge fine to do so.Notably, New Jersey has recently been toying with the idea of lowering their drinking age to 18, using the argument that revenue gained from tourism would outweigh the loss of highway funds (and something or other about personal freedoms, and people who can sign up for the army should be able to buy a beer, and so on.)The states also have differing laws about whether or not an adult over 21 can buy alcohol for minors. For instance, in some state like Massachusetts, an adult can go up to a public bar and order their child or underage spouse a alcoholic drink regardless of that persons age. In other states, allowing your child to drink alcohol is illegal even in your own home.
Do all,most, or some states have 21-year-old minimum drinking age laws?
All 50 states have a 21 minimum drinking age.