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by Jarulf on Wed Apr 20, 2005 at 06:16:39 AM PDT

>To my knowledge, the parents of a minor child
>would be responsible (liable) for their actions.

That vary a lot with country. No idea about USA for example, but here in Sweden, a person can  never responsible for someone elses actions, not even their children. One do, as a parent however, have a certain supervision responsability. It is of course effected by age of the child.

When it comes to contracts, at least purchases, the law is basically that the parent can approve of it (or dissaprove of an allready made purchace). The same goes for other types of contracts, the approval of the parent is needed. If you deliberately approve your child to agree to a EULA for example, it WILL be ok and enforcable. As I said, no idea about other countries though.

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