Comment by sarchertech

It is. We force parents to send their children to school until they are 16 or educate them themselves—along with many other regulations on how you can raise your kids.

We also put limits on brick and mortar business to help parents. We don’t allow liquor stores to sell alcohol to kids. You could argue that parents should be the ones preventing their kids from buying alcohol, and requiring everyone to submit ID in order to prevent underage drinking is the state doing parent’s job for them.