Reply #21: When he was 14, my grandfather in US by himself

[LeftyMom]

because his parents had figured Austria-Hungary wasn't a very good place to be a young man of fighting age, taken him to Italy and sent him alone to a country he'd never seen, with a little pocket money, no English and no special skills. He not only survived, he thrived.

You underestimate young people- in four years they'll be grown, able to vote, and in many cases on their own. Some might be parents. In other cultures and at other times in our own, many of them already would be shouldering adult responsibilities.

A history lesson is not going to traumatize your precious little snowflake.