➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: We Need Better Legal Protection for Young People in the Justice System (Opinion)
Youth Today – May 16, 2016
The will and strength to say “I do not have to talk to you without a lawyer” to a detective is not something a reasonable person should expect of any child or teenager. Yet state laws do not uniformly protect children from that situation. Many young people are interrogated without lawyers or even a family member present.
http://youthtoday.org/2016/05/we-need-better-legal-protection-for-young-people-in-the-justice-system/