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Parental Rights and Power.
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RE: Parental Rights and Power.

Certainly. This isn't something that would be easy to implement, by any stretch of the imagination. All I'm saying is, for there to be equality, we must to some degree give the youth the ability to escape parental power at an earlier age. Which, historically, isn't even that big of a deal. In some parts of human history, people would be married with their own house and job at the age of 13, dying somewhere in their 20's or 30's...

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Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012, 09:33 AM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012 02:31 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012, 02:43 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012, 03:00 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012, 03:17 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-04-2012, 03:23 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-11-2012, 03:00 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-11-2012, 03:18 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - 1312 - 04-11-2012, 05:42 PM
RE: Parental Rights and Power. - Absnt - 04-11-2012, 05:48 PM
Parental Rights and Power. - Avatar Korra - 05-21-2017, 05:05 PM

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