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Originally Posted by purebloodtexan

I thought it was 14, or is this another case of "it varies by state"?

Hmm...I may even have over estimated.

Age of reason, in psychology, is the age where a child is capable of carrying on complex conversation with an adult, usually around seven years but can be as high as fourteen years.

In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, the age, usually around seven or eight years old, when children are considered capable of understanding and participating in the sacraments.