Speaking of perspectives changing, I define kids as my current age - 20, and
old people as my current age + 20. Do you notice how many more kids there
are these days?

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

Winston Cochrane
Maineville, OH

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Subject: [VA-ROOTS] ...Infant... "back then"

"It's just mind-boggling that law-makers back then actually referred to
anyone under the age of 21 as "Infants".

Sarge, et al,

"Back then" is not so very long ago. When my father's sister died in
1961 and left a small bequest to my father, who had predeceased her, his
five children received equal shares of his inheritance. I had graduated high
school and would turn 19 later that year, but was referred to in the court
papers as an "infant". But what really fried me was two years later when I
was two months shy of 21 years, had been working for two years, and had to
get my mother to sign for me before I could buy my first car ...  the law
still considering me an infant for whom Mother was financially responsible!
Man! Was I ticked!

I must confess, however, that from my current vantage point, it seems far
more logical than having 18-year-olds buying cars and alcoholic beverages
and voting for politicians who take our lives and fortunes into their hands
daily. Perspectives do change with experience.

--
Carolyn HALE BRUCE
Virginia Beach, VA

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