need Supreme Court case

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if there is a Supreme Court case stating that teens under age 18 have the same civil liberties as adults?  I am looking for information to write a paper and I need substantial evidence that teens should be allowed to choose where they'd like to live if their rights are being jeopardized i/e in a WWASPS facility.  

If a 15 year old is tried as an adult for murder and given the death penalty, should they not be treated as an adult with a choice for residency if being mistreated?

[Anonymous]

I believe all the decisions run in the *opposite* direction-- ie, people under 18 have no rights under the U.S. consitution because their parents are believed to be "acting in their best interests."

The parents have the right to sign them up for whatever school or religious program or behavioral program they choose-- regardless of the child's consent.

The U.S. did not sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which would have given youth some liberty rights.  The only other country which refused to sign was Somalia.

American children are in the position of women before the vote and slaves before the civil war, basically.

[Anonymous]

if a parent finds out a program is abusive isnt it thre responsibly to take them out?

[Deborah]

Yeh, but they kinda have to know abuse is occuring. Programs are very well designed to prevent reports of abuse.
Parents would also have to identify the abuse as abuse. I've heard too many of them say "the kid" deserved what s/he got.
Their primary defense for leaving their child in the program- there are only allegations of abuse, no proof.
Deborah