VI. Homo Sapien Life
6.4 Homo Sapien Youth
Article 118 - Homo Sapien Youth
Homo Sapien Youth is defined as the period from the age of eleven (11) until the age of nineteenth (19th) birthday.
It is the primary responsibility of the legal parents usually as General Guardians to protect, nurture, direct and keep well all Homo Sapien Youth.
The legal parents of a Homo Sapien Youth are the biological parents unless the Youth is a product of surrogacy, foster care or adoption in which case:
(i) If surrogacy, the legal parents are the ones that commissioned the surrogacy; or
(ii) If adoption, the legal parents are the ones that were accepted for adoption as adoptive parents; or
(iii) If foster care, the legal parents are the ones that were accepted as foster parents.
The legal parents of a Youth may have their powers as guardians and therefore custodians of a Youth temporarily suspended, should a lack of competency and duty to their obligations to the Youth in the following specific areas as legal parents be established:
(i) Sustained physical and mental abuse; and
(ii) Sustained lack of basic nutrition and general hygiene; and
(iii) Any form of sexual abuse.
The legal parents of a Youth may have their powers as guardians and therefore custodians of an Youth permanently suspended, should it be proven there continues to be a lack of competency and duty to their obligations to the Youth in the following specific areas as legal parents be established:
(i) Sustained physical and mental abuse of other youth, children or infants under their supervision; and
(ii) Sustained lack of basic nutrition and general hygiene of other youth, children or infants under their supervision; and
(iii) History of sexual abuse of other youth, children or minors under their supervision.