Age, ancestry, and law [View All]

We can make a comparison with marriage:

1. Spouses choose each other. If some outside party compels them to become spouses, then the marriage can be annulled. It doesn't matter what the motivation of the outside party is. It doesn't matter whether or not the outside party has some argument designed to show that it is "natural" for those two particular people to be married. If the relationship is not chosen by both people, then the people involved in the relationship are not compelled by law to continue to interact with each other.

2. Spouses can live apart. If they live apart for long enough, then they have grounds for divorce. They are not compelled by law to live together.

If you have particular people as immediate ancestors and your chronological age is less than a particular magic number, then is that sufficient grounds for you to be compelled by law to be under the control of those people?