Young man

Young person is a term defined in German and Austrian law. In Germany this means a person under 27 years old and in three federal states of Austria a person under 18 years old.

Germany

In Germany, according to Section 7, Paragraph 1, No. 4, Book 8 of the Social Security Code (SGB VIII), a young person is “who is not yet 27 years old”.

According to the definitions in § 7 SGB VIII, the concept of young people thus also

• Children - "who is not yet 14 years old" - with the exception of the provisions on
  • Care and upbringing of children as a right and duty of the parents (child in this sense is "who is not yet 18 years old")
  • Adoption as a child (children in this sense are "people who have not yet reached the age of 18")
• Young people - "who is 14, but not yet 18 years old"
• young adults - "who is 18 but not yet 27 years old"
  

German age definitions up to 30th birthday

term	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
infant	Yes	No
small child	part	Yes		part			part	No
childhood	No			early			middle				late				No
child	Yes												part		part				No
student	No						Yes										part		No
teenager	No													Yes							No
Teenager	No														Yes				part			No
Youth ( UN )	No													part		Yes					part	part				No
Youth ( shell )	No												Yes													No
Age of consent	Yes														part		part		No
Minor	Yes																		No
Child benefit	Yes																		part			part				once		No
young person	part										Yes								part							part		No
teenager	No																		Yes			No
young adult	No																		Yes									No
of legal age	No																		Yes
criminal responsibility	No												formerly		part				Yes			Yes
legally competent	No							part					part		part		part		Yes
FSK / USK	0						6th						12				16		18th

Austria

In Austria in are youth protection laws of the federal states Burgenland , Lower Austria and Vienna as a young man called such persons "who have not attained the age of 18". Married persons , civil servants and military servants under the age of 18 are excluded from this ; they are considered adults . The youth protection terms of children and adolescents are not (no longer) contained in the corresponding laws of the three federal states.

In Upper Austria , the term youth protection law is used synonymously with young people (“persons up to the age of 18”) - with the same exception for persons who are considered adults.

In the other five federal states , however, a distinction is still made between children (under 12 or 14 years of age) and young people (from 12 to 18 years of age or from 14 to 18 years of age) - in some cases with exceptions for married people and for civil or . Military servant.

See also

• Child and Youth Services
• Youth law
• Protection of minors
• Adolescents
• Youth welfare law

literature

• Manfred Günther : Almost everything that is right for young people. HVD-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-924041-23-7 .
• Manfred Günther: Lexicon youth - age. From the abba to the zygote. Rabenstück, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935607-39-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the state of Bavaria , vocational school is compulsory up to the age of 21; see BayEUG , Art. 39 .
2. ↑ Child benefit is currently granted for disabled children in Germany without any age limit.
3. ↑ To whom do the youth protection laws apply? In: Home (young people) → Rights and democracy → Youth rights → Protection of young people in the federal states. HELP.gv.at , Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth , July 14, 2008, accessed on December 16, 2008 . 

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