Except the parents get to pay for it.
Screw this system.

Pure evil, really...

DC - NIFO

I think legally you had no ability to make a financial contract at that age and could not be held to such a contract.
So the broker had to have a signature of someone who could legally make a contract.

The current laws regarding medical treatments vary by state and the previous federal decision
(now overturned Roe-Wade) on abortion is probably what led to children being given legal
authority over their bodies that no average inexperienced person under 21 should have forced on them.
Children were protected in the past.
Women were protected in the past (- and are still unfairly protected in many divorce decisions.)
For the past 40 years, the law has been written to destroy the underpinnings of Western civilization.
That Deep State plan is succeeding, and it will succeed unless rational people stop obeying
unconstitutional federal edicts imposed by traitors in DC, NY, London, Brussels, Sacramento,
the WHO, the WEF.

Parental controls? That along with any form of discipline may be redefined as "child abuse" and is illegal. Parents, especially in some venues, have to be extremely careful in how they "guide" their offspring towards adulthood. From what I've seen parents are guilty until proven innocent.

Whatever happened to parental controls? I would have feared for my life if I'd gotten a tattoo even though my formerly Merchant Mariner daddy had two of them. My mother would have amputated the site of the tattoo! Or at least she had me convinced of that and I believed her.

When I was 16, and I believe the same is true today, I had to get written parental permission to open a non margin account so I could buy my first shares of stock because I wasn't considered mature enough at the time to make those kinds of decisions partly due to the amount of "brokers" that would be happy to relieve me of any financial burdens. Now we have a cadre of Joseph Mengele types salivating at the prospect of making big bucks to experiment on confused children who don't have the maturity to make permanent life altering decisions. Couple that up with a bunch of political types that hate mankind, especially white western civilization, who are working overtime to indoctrinate the confusion into our youth. Another example is I'm starting to notice a lot of 20 and 30 somethings that got tattoos when they were in their teens now wish they hadn't done that - sex change is far more permanent.