Runaway laws for youth should be abolished

I will refute your arguments. 1. Little Jimmy could never understand that the laws and rules in society were there to protect his best interests. These rules don't protect youth best interests. Throughout most of human history there was no adolescence. "Adolescence" was created when compulsory schooling laws and child labor laws strengthened. Before the industrial revolution, people were getting married at/around 13 and had a lower divorce rate. 2. Statistics show that runaway teenagers are at a higher risk of being involved with prostitution and alcohol and drug abuse. That is because of other oppressive laws like child labor laws. We know poverty causes crime and child labor laws prohibit youth from getting a decent job and earning a good income (because of child labor laws, there are very limited jobs available to youth where they can earn a decent income) and in addition, under terms of child labor laws, a runaway needs parental consent before getting a job, which will not happen. This is why runaways turn to crime. 3. These kids need to learn structure; the importance of rules and regulations. How can they learn that through runaway laws? They are not learning anything because of restrictive laws or youth laws like the juvenile system. If youth are tried as juveniles for their crimes and not as adults, how do they learn structure? Many adults don't follow the rules of this society. You watch the news about bank robberies, beatings, frauds, child abuse and many crimes on the news committed by adults. This shows many adults don't understand the importance of rules. So we might as well place curfew laws for adults so they can understand the importance of rules and regulations. Some people might say "teens are not ready to be responsible for themselves and their actions" or "they don't have life experience to make good decisions" that is not true. How are they supposed to gain experience under restrictive laws? What if their parents don't let them gain experience? And even if we do gain experience, we don't always learn from them. Like spending 12 years in a classroom and not learning anything. Finally, the "teen brain" was found to be a myth. http://www.mercatornet.com... They are telling people the brain is not developed till 25. The truth is, teens brains are influenced by their outside environment, including schooling, and all teens are required to go to school, so it makes sense that all their brains are the same. Lets compare those brains to the brains of teens in countries where they don't go to school and are married young. We might see a big difference. If it were the norm to finish high school at 25, there would be a new study saying the brain has not matured till 30. 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.” Of course when you get a new job your brain will rewire itself when you get a new job, to help you settle into your new career.