If you have a Gmail account, you automatically have a Google+ account. Teenagers are permitted to open Google+ accounts.

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The age limit is 13 because of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which was passed in 1998. COPPA restricts websites from tracking data on children under 13, which is why most apps do not want kids younger than 13 to join.

According to the terms of service, you have to be 13, but there’s no age-verification process, so it’s very easy for kids under 13 to sign up. Common Sense rates Instagram for age 15 and up because of mature content, access to strangers, marketing ploys, and data collection.

YouTube is supposed to be for users over the age of 13, due to the fact that the parent company, Google, collects and markets user data. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) exempts kids from data collection.

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Minors also have rights under the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, they have the right to equal protection, which means that every child is entitled to the same treatment at the hands of authority regardless of race, gender, disability, or religion.

People under 16 can’t make an independent decision to leave home. Legally, they are still the responsibility of an adult. Over 16s can leave home without the consent of parents or carers. A parent can try to force the young person to return home but a court would be unlikely to make them return against their will.

You do not have rights against the grandparents unless you have legally established paternity or have an existing court order regarding custody and support. If you have neither, then in order to obtain rights you must petition the court to establish paternity. The procedure for doing so varies by state.

Parental responsibility means the legal rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority a parent has for a child and the child’s property. A person who has parental responsibility for a child has the right to make decisions about their care and upbringing. Deciding a child’s name and registering their birth.

In respect of a mother, the only way for a mother to lose her Parental Responsibility for that child is if the child is made subject to an Adoption Order. A father with Parental Responsibility would also lose Parental Responsibility if that child were made subject to an Adoption Order.

The only way to remove parental responsibility is through an application to the court and these applications are only successful in exceptional circumstances.