emancipated

They have to become emancipated before they turn 18, and you can only do that voluntarily in some states.

Paternalism and its religious affiliates would rise up again to capture the income of the not-yet-emancipated (by that I mean women and children).

Tell them you're emancipated from your parents, independent, working for yourself, and don't have time for normal high school.

Although if a child were say, emancipated from her family (living independently) perhaps she should receive a basic income?

You can achieve the same thing by being 24 years old, or by being legally emancipated.

If anything, the aesthetics of a culture (and important symbology) needs to be emancipated from the late Modernist industrial complex.

Even emancipated children are not considered financially independent for aid purposes until the age of 25.

In order to normalize trade relations, they had to accept debt at the market rate for the slaves who had been emancipated.

She can not enter into any legal agreements (unless she is an emancipated youth).

I bet you feel emancipated from worrying about doing something you don't actually feel inclined to do.

George Washington had to rotate his slaves through Philadelphia while he was President, so that they would not stay long enough to be emancipated.

The thing about our pro-North viewpoint of the Civil War was that while Lincoln emancipated slaves, it was used more as a political weapon.

Furthermore it's often insufficient nuanced: the standard is too vague (two children of same age may differ wildly maturity wise, some children may become "emancipated minors", etc...).

In your example, when you "emancipated" the robots, you effectively taxed whoever owned them at the time.

I said, "I am fully emancipated, and living as an adult.