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The 15 pages that link to Age of majority, each with the reason it gives.

• PaternalismRelated: Age-based limits often rest on claims about developing competence and protection from harmful choices.

• AdolescenceRelated: This fixed legal boundary contrasts with adolescence’s gradual and variable transitions.

• Children's rightsCompared with: It marks a legal boundary that does not erase the rights children hold before adulthood.

• Age of consentCompared with: It may differ from the age at which sexual consent is legally permitted.

• Coming-of-ageRelated: Law sets a formal threshold that can differ from personal or social maturity.

• Age verificationRelated: Many age checks determine whether a person has reached this general legal threshold.

• Civil marriageRelated: Marriage eligibility rules commonly depend on age and legal capacity.

• Adolescent developmentRelated: Legal adulthood may begin at an age that does not match biological or social maturity.

• Statutory rapeCompared with: It is distinct from the age-of-consent threshold used in sexual-offense laws.

• Valéry Giscard d'EstaingRelated: His government lowered France's age of majority from 21 to 18 in 1974.

• BirthdayRelated: A birthday can trigger the legal transition to adult status.

• Age of criminal responsibilityCompared with: It marks general adulthood, which is distinct from the earlier or later onset of criminal responsibility.

• EphebophiliaRelated: Legal adulthood varies and does not determine the meaning of this age-based attraction term.

• Adult (person)Related: It provides a formal legal threshold that can differ from social or biological maturity.

• Laura DekkerCompared with: Her voyage began while she remained legally a minor in the Netherlands.