Where No Child Has Gone Before
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Under
both the ancient principles of the contract and the ancient customs of
the family, a Social Security Account obtained for a minor is void from
its inception and without legal merit. It might also be considered
a form of child abuse, but first things first.
Under
the ancient principles of the contract, a minor is incompetent to make
a binding contract. Also under those principles, a person, either
minor or adult, cannot be bound under a contract imposed upon him without
his consent. A Social Security Account obtained for a child by a
parent is a violation of both principles. Under the ancient customs
of the family, parents are responsible for all legal matters regarding
their children. While the children are minors, they are legally nothing
more than adjuncts of their parents. They don't have any legal standing
of their own. Thus, when a parent obtains a Social Security Account
for a child, the alleged contract is legally fictitious.
The
only means whereby Social Security Accounts for minors can be legitimized
is by a declaration of majority abrogating the ancient presumption of the
incompetence of minors. If such a declaration were universal, then
the consequences would be serious. Anybody, of whatever age, would
be able to purchase alcohol or tobacco products. Any child, of whatever
age, would qualify for a driver's license if he could pass the test.
Pornography filters at libraries would be illegal because any five-year-old
would be legally entitled to view adult material. Sexual relations
between men and young girls wouldn't be statutory rape any more, because
the girls would have adult status. Amazingly, the crime of pedophilia
would vanish entirely, because all of the participants would be legally
adults. We're already moving in that direction. Consider that
juvenile males are already sometimes tried as adults. Minors are
often detained nowadays in adult facilities, required to possess adult
style ID, and submit to adult style security searches at schools.
The alternative is a different definition of minority for every situation.
We're also moving in that direction, with different age requirements for
driving, smoking, drinking, military service, marriage, insurance, and
so forth. The implications of either alternative are ominous.
The distinction between minors and adults is becoming less distinct all
the time. Social Security Accounts for children might be the penultimate
straw.
So,
anybody who thinks that a child should have a Social Security Account and
who thinks that it isn't a form of child abuse should think again.
Anybody who's planning to get such an account for his child should consider
that the implications of getting it might be worse than the consequences
of not getting it. Anybody who's already obtained an account for
his child should try to cancel it. Any minor who's about to achieve
majority should plan to rescind his Social Security Account, if he has
one, immediately upon achieving majority. He should notify the Social
Security Administration that the account was opened while he was incompetent
and without his knowledge or consent and is therefore void from its inception,
without legal merit, and of no binding effect. If the authorities
refuse to allow such cancellation, then it isn't a contract. It's
extortion. However, the demand to cancel the account must be as soon
as possible. Acceptance and use of the account, with the knowledge
of its defects, will legitimize the defects and abrogate any right of cancellation
that might otherwise have existed. Anybody who voluntarily keeps
it and uses it, knowing of its defects, will be stuck with it for life.
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